Masculine and Feminine

Alright, so now I know why everyone gets their panties in a bunch about Godard. This film is unbelievable and shatters a lot of the type of filmmaking encouraged at USC. Godard doesn't seem to care about smoothness or glossiness, he is after something much larger, pure expression, pure emotion, through character. There is no plot in this film, which is it's major drawback in that 5/6 of the way through, the audience has run out of steam. I felt like, "All right, what the hell can happen now?" And then it rather quickly ends after that. But it's amazing how long you can watch this plotless film with pure enjoyment. It follows Paul, a 21 year old just out of the army, running around trying to fall in love. The best scenes are super long scenes between a male and female characters just going back and forth trying to seduce one another. It's not snappy, like Hawks, but innocent and earnest, yet tremendously funny. The woman in this film are irresistable - where does he find them? Are they actors?

It's very funny this film and makes filmmaking feel accessible. I can see why Tarantino loves him.