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Rialto Pictures
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Featuring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlene Jobert, Michel Debord, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Brigitte Bardot
With Masculin feminine, ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love affairs with music, revolution, and each other. French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as Paul, an idealistic would-be intellectual struggling to forge a relationship with the adorable pop star Madeleine (real-life yé-yé girl Chantal Goya). Through their tempestuous affair, Godard fashions a candid and wildly funny free-form examination of youth culture in throbbing 1960s Paris, mixing satire and tragedy as only Godard can.
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Format:
DVD
Disc:
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Behind the Scenes Footage, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- Archival 1966 interview with actress Chantal Goya
- New video interviews with Chantal Goya, Willy Kurant, and Jean-Luc Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin, conducted in 2005
- Video discussion of the film between French film scholars Freddy Buache and Dominique Païni
- Swedish television footage of Godard directing the “film within the film” scene
- Trailers for the original theatrical release and the 2005 rerelease
- A 16-page booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Adrian Martin and a reprint of a report from the set by French journalist Phillippe Labro
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Release Credits
Producer: Issa Clubb
Artwork: F. Ron Miller
Release Notes on Restoration
Masculin feminin
Masculin féminin is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and the right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. Cinematographer Willy Kurant supervised this new high-definition digital transfer, which was created on a Spirit Datacine from the 35mm fine-grain master. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, and scratches were removed using the MTI Digital Restoration System. To maintain optimal image quality through the compression process, the picture on this dual-layer DVD-9 was encoded at the highest possible bit rate for the quantity of material included.
The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the optical soundtrack master, and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle. The Dolby Digital 1.0 signal will be directed to the center channel on 5.1-channel sound systems, but some viewers may prefer to switch to two-channel playback for a wider dispersal of the mono sound.