Une femme coquette
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| Une femme coquette | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Written by |
Guy de Maupassant(story) Jean-Luc Godard |
| Starring |
Maria Lysandre Roland Tolma |
| Cinematography | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Edited by | Jean-Luc Godard |
Release dates | 1955 |
Running time | 9 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Une femme coquette (A Flirtatious Woman) (1955) was the first of four short fiction films made by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard preceding his work in feature-length narrative film.
The short film is based on the story "Le Signe" (The Signal), by Guy de Maupassant. It is a nine-minute story of a woman who decides to copy the gesture she has seen a prostitute make to passing men. Then a young man, played by Roland Tolmatchoff, responds.
In Maupassant's original tale the scene takes place indoors, the woman having signaled from her window, but in Godard's revision the characters meet by a bench on the Ile Rousseau in Geneva.[1]
Cast
- Maria Lysandre as The Woman
- Roland Tolma as The Man
Film data
- Runtime: 9 min
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Color: Black and White
References
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