''Une femme coquette'' (''A Flirtatious Woman'') (

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

) 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 Fran� ...

preceding his work in feature-length narrative film. The short film is based on the story ''Le Signe'' (The Signal) by

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

. 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.Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema, p.34

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* Maria Lysandre as The Woman * Roland Tolma as The Man

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* Runtime: 9 min * Country: France * Language: French * Color: Black and White

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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 1950s French films {{1950s-France-film-stub

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