''Une femme coquette'' (''A Flirtatious Woman'') (
1955
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) was the first of four short fiction films made by French filmmaker
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Franà ...
preceding his work in feature-length narrative film.
The short film is based on the story ''Le Signe'' (The Signal) by
Guy de Maupassant
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. 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
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in
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.
[Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema, p.34]
Cast
* Maria Lysandre as The Woman
* Roland Tolma as The Man
Film data
* Runtime: 9 min
* Country: France
* Language: French
* Color: Black and White
See also
*
List of avant-garde films of the 1950s
This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 1950s. Unless noted, all films had sound and were in black and white.
References
{{Filmsbygenre
Avant-garde
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* La boulangère de Monceau (also known as The Bakery Girl of Monceau) (1963) by Éric Rohmer
References
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1955 comedy films
1955 films
French black-and-white films
Films based on works by Guy de Maupassant
Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard
1950s French-language films
1955 short films
French comedy short films
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