Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

Jean-Pierre Léaud
as Paul

Chantal Goya
as Madeleine Zimmer

Marlène Jobert
as Élisabeth Choquet

Michel Debord
as Robert Packard

Catherine-Isabelle Duport
as Catherine-Isabelle

Evabritt Strandberg
as She (Woman in the Film)

Birger Malmsten
as He (Man in the Film)

Yves Afonso
as Man Who Kills Himself (uncredited)

Henri Attal
as The Other Porn Book Reader (uncredited)

Mickey Baker
as Record Producer (uncredited)
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In MASCULIN FEMININ, shot in the autumn of 1965, Jean-Luc Godard studies the perennial features of courtship and dating between young men and young women, and the particular way they worked out in the newly permissive and economically booming society of 1960s France. Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is 21 a...