Une Femme Coquette - Jean Luc Godard (1955). W/Intro & English Subs

Une Femme Coquette, the second short film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It’s a nine-minute Guy De Maupassant adaptation he shot on 16 mm in Geneva in 1955, using money earned from the sale of Opération Béton, his first short film. Une Femme Coquette is the most elusive rarity of the French New Wave, and possibly the most difficult-to-see film by a name filmmaker that isn’t believed to be irretrievably lost. Actually, plenty of references list it as lost-which, again, it isn’t-because it’s never been distributed and because no film archive or public collection will cop to owning a print.
The plot was a reworking of a Guy De Maupassant short story called “The Signal,” about a woman who allows herself to be mistaken for a prostitute. The movie was filmed very cheaply on the streets of Geneva, with JLG serving as the sole crew member. According to Colin MacCabe’s biography, Godard: A Portrait Of The Artist At Seventy-which devotes the final, tantalizingly brief paragraph of its first chapter to the film it was shot on equipment borrowed from Actua-Films, the company that distributed JLG’s first short, Opération Béton, and pieces of Bach were used for the soundtrack.

[@clarinhasouza6649]

rewatching this every day i feel like this woman

[@AlexHai_Gondolier]

Beautiful long remembering to Luc , daring and futuristic master of cinema, farewell to the stars

[@oguzkagansevinc]

İt’s a old short movie but the scenario is like so fresh ,like coming from present . thats my first godard movie but i’ll keep watching because i like it .

[@thomasgrantcrary2824]

Thank you for sharing that.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

thanks so much for this. I dig the early Godard films. Contempt is one of my 12 favorite films.

[@algiersmuse]

Thanks

[@x3LightNinG]

curiosity caught u in fire

[@angelicaprodev]

I love it

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

is there a YT channel for short films?

[@Supernamek-rh2xv]

Skip the video until it actually start and it is at

[@richardtudor9824]

Hi, I'm writing a thesis on Godard and was hoping to use this as a source. Is there any way you could let me know where you got this from? Thanks

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

wow the Bach music for Brandenburg makes zero sense there

[@isabelleb.dearruda2469]

This is the whole movie or just a part of it?

[@danieleheheh]

Ahhhhh merda l'ho ritrovato io questo cortometraggio, vergognati!

[@la-di-da-di-da]

Is this French new wave??

[@shadhinahmedd7416]

Can anyone tell me the name of the piece played in the background by Bach?

[@vardor]

context? So to my perception, without knowing anything about this work, beyond my own biases, this seems to touch on the horrible treatment of women, and also on the idea of associating smiling at a man with sinful shame. It's 1955 in France...based on Maupassant's story from an even earlier time (1880s). So I am looking with a New Yorker's eyes in 2018. To me, a prostitute is nothing other than a human being in need of help and healing, but certainly not some object who, having sinned against some vaunted moral diety (I again show some personal bias) can expect nothing less than (deserve) mistreatment.

[@LarzGustafsson]

The dreadful music disturbs me.

[@573elyc]

second short film? i though it was the first one

[@maximeHECTOR3]

C'est vraiment dla merde le cinéma de Godard!