Masculin Féminin November 27, 2004

Parisian vignettes featuring Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a soldier just home from service, and Madeleine (Chantal Goya), a budding young pop singer, become a series of sharp observations on the 1960s culture of youth or, in Godard's legendary phrase, "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola." Surprisingly enchanting and funny (and loosely based on two Guy de Maupassant stories), Masculin Féminin looks at consumerism, romanticism, and the influence of the media "rather like a highbrow comic book," according to one contemporary critic, while pointing a finger at the vast indifference of the age (1966, 105 minutes).

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