cronostitan Delicate work frozen in this moment when everything is still possible, before the vulgar common people says yes (or rather; no) to the adventure and before the fire of the passion welds bodies for ever, "Male, feminine" of the cunning Godard is easily allowed to see and has very little take age.After all the urban decorum of the movie, which shows the psychological fight of a man attacked frontally by two women (or, will say evil spirit,the one of a loyal poor guy cornered between two rascals) is very current-minded otherwise completely contemporary. And, of course, if his cult director asserted during the first release of this full-length film that his scenario is pulled of a short story of Maupassant, it is not obviously without reason if its vision sets in guts because of its robust dramatic intensity, and even if the whole is a little bit long. It is there that we observe the gloomy regression of our society rather "bourgeoise" which tolerates, in any case, no real independence especially if this one is not labelled!"Male, Feminine" is also sincere one immediate take from his time and of Paris, a city which has finally little changed nowadays and which seems strangely very close to the year of the manufacturing of the movie (1966) then in full Vietnam War although nevertheless, our period of the 21th century is post-era hippy and sexual post- liberation as far as we know. During all the movie-reels we have the notorious impression to evolve in an overrated sanctuary even invaded by the industrialization as well as the automobile and which exists only for the pigeons with change, thus so much for the fans of Robert Doisneau who is here stoned to death in public, right? We shall also adore the scene taken on the deep of typical dirty Parisian café and also that one of the bed where Madeleine again wants to play touch-wee-wee; proof that she is not a lesbian 100% as claimed these others ones who have nothing understood with the movie. On the other hand, the highly- rated technical of one of the last sequences taking place in a recording studio is edifying enough:it is well shown there how are made from A until Z a lot of idols...All in all we shall say that "Male, feminine" is as the cod-liver oil remedy, it is necessary to gulp it down even if it has bad taste and then to forget it before to see clearly there. Its scathing relies shooted as a gunfight possess the heat of the truth, without considering the admirable play sharpened as a solitary of the three actors protagonists... as we would like to see it more often in a French movie of today. And I know what I'm talking about.

Ersbel Oraph This movie is about an opportunist seeking the approval of armchair revolutionaries. The story is about the director slash film writer JL Godard and the public is expected to be sucked in the disjointed stories presented on screen. And the final product is a working product which gave the opportunist a boost in image.Pick any star of today you dislike. Someone liked by the masses but disliked by you. Godard is the same shallow thing, only for the Marxists for whom he sang.This is a masculine ode, of course, given the name. A catholic revival story. And to make things more revolutionary you have the exploitation of images like Coca Cola or the Vietnam war. Which was started by the French. What makes Godard disgusting is that he knew of Vietnam, he knew of all the colonial wars, he knew about Algeria and how a decade before the police has drowned hundreds of peaceful Algerians in the Seine, yet he needs to point out his spineless resistance against the US. Which makes him yet another proud cultural icon serving the power.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

Hitchcoc This is about bored kids in Paris around 1965. France has been dealing with Vietnam since it was called French Indo-China. The U.S. has dived in head first. A couple of young men fancy themselves reactionaries. Their actions are silly and innocuous but they feel they should be doing something. What they actually do is talk a lot. They ask endless questions. Paul, played by Jean-Pierre Leaude, the little boy in "The 400 Blows" is a naive brat who wants to be hot stuff but can't pull it off. He imagines himself like Belmondo but can't even master the cigarette trick that the great one used. The women are really in charge here, although they haven't figured things out that well either. One pretty young thing is a gorgeous, though quite wholesome, pop music star. This role doesn't seem to get her much credibility with her friends, particularly with Paul. She is a celebrity but no one can figure out why. They go to movies, hang around a cafe, but can't feel good in their own skins. Jean Luc Godard lets his characters live, but his point is less tactile.

Cihan "Sean Victorydawn" Vercan (CihanVercan) In 1960s' France, when there is rebellion against every reigning doctrine inside the mind of youth culture; Godard particularizes the downgrading of youth in different cases. Honored with Silver Berlin Bear for his influential leading part, Jean-Pierre Leaud symbolizes French New Wave with playing a captious character by means of critical attitudes. So wisely, Godard doesn't force the story to describe this leading character. Instead he let his leading actor become the viewer. Of every moment at all the scenes Godard puts us in his shoes. When we start laughing at an ironic situation, he became the one who is making fun of the person in the irony. When we start feeling bored of a conversation, he became the one disturbing the talkers. When we start getting confused of the happenings, he came to create his own scene.Not only leading the script, the story and the other actors; Jean- Pierre Leaud also leads us to be part of his daily life, to realize his ambitions. Step by step he charms Madeleine with asking dead-end questions and helping her finding the impossible answers. Even though Madeleine ideally never liked him, she found herself pregnant and realized he has become the one that will share her fate in a little while. You would be impressed how fabulously, Paul convinces Madeleine and her roommate to share the same house, same room and to sleep in the same bed altogether. If this has been Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" you wouldn't be amazed that much.Masculin Feminin is a conversation-based movie of philosophy and youth sociology and has the governing idea that even with the feminism women still are under the sway of masculinity. It's centering on masculinity. There is also a hidden analogy here that; as socialism being nothing but a rebellion to the eyes of democracy, so is feminism being nothing but a rebellion to the eyes of a man's self-knowledge. The character profiles are very well sculptured. It inspires confidence over the impossible-to-understand woman characteristics. Yet, for me the best issue is that the story-telling is very confusing, out-of-order; so that it's not really down-to-earth at all.