Masculin Feminin

Masculin Feminin (1966)

  • 92% of critics liked it
    (39 reviews)

  • 86% of users liked it
    (7,576 ratings)

Masculine Feminine was Jean-Luc Godard's first (but not his last) foray into the burgeoning "Children of the Sixties" generation -- or, as Godard described it, "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola." Impressionable teenager Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) tries to make sense of the… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Jean-Luc Godard
Genres
Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Classics
In Theaters
Sep 19, 1966 Limited
On DVD
Sep 20, 2005
Rialto

Critic Reviews

  • Pauline Kael, The New Republic

    Using neither crime nor the romance of crime but a simple romance for a kind of interwoven story line, Godard has, at last, created the form he needed. It is a combination of essay, journalistic sketches, news and portraiture, love lyric and satire.

  • , Time Out

    Its parodies and satires are recklessly inventive, and its fundamental pessimism isn't as flip as it may at first seem.

  • Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

    May not have aged any better than Godard's other films of the period, but that doesn't mean Paul and company don't continue to ask questions and spout the opinions of the newly enlightened.

  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    The kaleidoscopic film's meandering mirrors the uncertainty of that restless, tumultuous era.

  • Mary Brennan, Seattle Times

    An odd, scattered, free-form, but thoroughly engaging film.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Anthony L


    "A mole is blind but burrows in a particular direction". Masculin Feminin, although not really about man and woman, is about a young couple who basically represent the impossible struggle between idealism and consumerism. Although there is always a contradiction waiting… More

  • Jan Marc M


    Masculine Feminine is of popular culture, youth, love, and sex from Jean-Luc Godard starring French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul in a romantic pursuit for Madeleine, eventually involved in a "ménage à quatre." Vigorous narrative and visual style. Seductive.

  • Jim H


    And so begins my tour of Godard films ... Of the five Godard films I've seen (and am going to see), this is the best, but that's not saying much. Normally, I begin my reviews with a sentence-long plot outline, but Godard is so entrenched in the post-structuralist… More

  • Ken S


    weird weird movie. Not my favorite Godard...kind of like Life Aquatic...it's quirky for quirky's sake

  • danny d


    godards commentary on 1960's young people in france is interesting and insightful, while a bit bizarre at the same time. many of the signature godard techniques are here, including a texture quite similar to breathless. the quirky story becomes tragic in a way not coherent with… More

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