Masculin Féminin

Jean-Luc Godard wrote and directed Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis, a black-and-white French New Wave comedy-drama of 1966 and a Franco-Swedish co-production. It loosely adapts Maupassant's Le Signe and La Femme de Paul. The film is widely seen as a portrait of 1960s France and Paris, and is remembered for an intertitle calling it "The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola." Jean-Pierre Léaud won the Silver Bear at the 1966 Berlin Film Festival for his role.

The story follows Paul (Léaud), an idealistic young man just out of military service who looks for work while protesting the Vietnam War. He falls for Madeleine (Chantal Goya), a young pop singer focused on her career. A four-way household forms with Madeleine's roommates Catherine (Catherine-Isabelle Duport) and Elisabeth (Marlène Jobert). The camera probes the young cast in vérité-style interviews about love, sex and politics, and the story is interrupted by sequences such as a scene adapted from LeRoi Jones's play Dutchman.

The film references Charles de Gaulle, André Malraux, James Bond and Bob Dylan, and Brigitte Bardot appears as herself. It is counted among the works marking Godard's move from the New Wave toward a more political cinema.