Masculin Feminin
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
1966
**
"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 around the corner. Chantal Goya is beautiful and so served her purpose, harsh but fair. Godard just doesn't get anything from Jean-Pierre Léaud, certainly not like Truffaut did some years earlier and I really do think that was down to the direction rather than the acting. Many have parodied Godard's work and it's easy to see why in this film. It's not really about anything other than Godard having another bee in his bonnet, the anti-Vietnam war theme had become more than repetitive by then, not that that stopped him, he was still at it in 2002! It's another miss in my opinion though I'm afraid for the hit and miss director.