(1966, Dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Considering I didn't see all of Breathless, this was my first Godard. When I was looking up stuff about The 400 Blows, I kept seeing stuff about this other movie starring an older Jean-Pierre Leaud, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. With each screencap of Masculin Féminin I saw the more I was convinced that I absolutely had to see this movie. So I went all the way to the Cincinnati library and acquired it. You already know from my previous post that I loved this movie. I loved it a lot. I haven't tried making any kind of favorite movies list for quite a while but I know this would be on there. I never wanted this movie to end. Not because I needed a plot to be resolved or a question to be answered, but because I just got so attached to the characters. I doubt I could even name any of them but I was very invested in them because they seemed so real. I enjoyed spending time watching these characters because they seemed like very real people with very real lives outside of what was being shown on screen. I really liked that. I'm all about it. While this film kind of a had a plot, it was more about conversations and relationships than solving any conflict. I'm kind of obsessed with talking and I find the poetry of conversation really fascinating. A film can cover a lot of ground content-wise if it's not bound to a plot. Characters can talk about anything at all if they're not bent on solving the Big Problem! That was new and interesting to me. The music from this movie is amazing. Chantal Goya, who stars alongside Leaud, was a pop star of the time and her music is used as the soundtrack and it is just great. I've been listening to it constantly! There were approximately a million other things I loved about this movie (the ENDING! etc) and maybe some things I didn't but prom killed me dead and my arms feel like they're made of jell-o. So that's the end of that. Peace out.
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