
Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and disillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his friends and peers ('the children of Marx and Coca Cola', as the credits announce) and their social and emotional politics.... (Full plot summary below)
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Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and disillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his friends and peers ('the children of Marx and Coca Cola', as the credits announce) and their social and emotional politics.
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| Los Angeles CityBeatAndy Klein...a crucial, though not very satisfying, transitional work... |
| Filmcritic.comJay AntaniThis is take-no-prisoners cinema by an artist too honest to exempt himself from its scalding gaze. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonOne of the quintessential '60s foreign art films, a bizarre melange of pop music, revolution, sex, movie allusions and poetry. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonNo one was ever better at collecting a hodgepodge of ideas and making them work as a cohesive whole, as the voice of one hyper-intelligent, constantly frustrated commentator. |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonMay not have aged any better than Godard's other films of the period, but that doesn't mean Paul and company don't continue to ask questions and spout the opinions of the newly enlightened. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyJean-Luc Godard's1966 masterpiece, Masculine-Feminine, is a must-see for all film lovers. Godard was the most brilliant and innovative French New Wave director. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrFor all the doubt and acrid aphorisms, despite the gunfire that interrupts the soundtrack, and the playful, random death that flits around the edges, there's an indestructible core of romanticism. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarThis is the Godard that fans would like to take to the grave: jaundiced, naughty, immediate, very much alive. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottIt could shake up young viewers now as it 40 years ago, except that there's no French New Wave momentum of film passion. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzForay into the mindset of the Children of the Sixties. |