Une femme coquette (1955)

Directed by

Jean-Luc Godard

Genre

comedy film

Country

France, Switzerland

Runtime

10 min

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman sees a prostitute gesture to men and decides to try it herself. A young man responds and they meet by a bench on an island in Geneva.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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