(1966) dir. Jean-Luc Godard; 103 min.

Friday, October 23rd & Saturday, October 24th @ 7 & 9:30pm

Sunday, October 25th @ 3pm

Masculine, Feminine was somewhat of a turning point for Godard, allowing the Novelle Vague auteur to address for the first time the current political climate of the world in one of his films. In many ways, this is the
perfect Godard film—complex but accessible, snide but unpretentious, critical but sympathetic. As well, in many ways the film anticipates his 1967 masterpiece Weekend, arguably his finest achievement. The film is aprovocative and deliriously funny examination of sexual politics in Paris during the height of the Vietnam War. Its genius is the way Godard seamlessly encodes his complex philosophy of the world into a deceptivelysimple love story between an ex-army recruit, Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud), and a would-be pop singer, the beautiful Madeleine (Chantal Goya). This is first-class "Freudemocracy," a term Godard coined to describethe sexual-political potential of film.