Video Review

Masculin-Femenin (1991)

Reviewed by Lawrence O'Toole | Oct 04, 1991
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Movie Rated: Unrated; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: Chantal Goya and Jean-Pierre Leaud; Distributor: New Yorker Video

A year earlier of Weekend, Godard had shot his astringent boy-meets-girl lyric with the intense Jean-Pierre Léaud and the dippy Chantal Goya, Masculin-Féminin. The film's casual, brazen tone was once novel (it had attitude way back then), as were the jump cuts and the fractured narrative. But the film doesn't date well, though as a time capsule it remains fascinating. B+

Originally posted Oct 04, 1991 Published in issue #85 Sep 27, 1991 Order article reprints

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