Charlotte and Her Boyfriend 1960 ‘Charlotte et son Jules’ Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say much. She just mocks the man and pretends she isn't listening. She pulls faces at him and larks about; while the man is trying his best to get her back in his life, then in the next sentence he says he hates her.
a short film about the men in my DMs sending 700 messages in a row and me leaving them all on read
A Godard short inspired by Jean Cocteau's Le Bel Indifferent, a one-act play he wrote for Edith Piaf , Charlotte et son Jules changes the gender of the original roles: instead of a female nightclub singer, we get Belmondo berating his lover for her unfaithful ways. Inverting the genders could have turned the whole piece into the misogynist musings of a scorned lover, but thankfully Godard uses this to poke fun at Belmondo's macho persona, rambling on and on for nearly 10 minutes without letting Charlotte speak. In Cocteau's piece the cheating lover refuses to engage with his girlfriend, completely ignoring her pleas while he skims the newspaper, but here Charlotte remains disengaged because Belmondo won't let her get a…
The ironies of a dependent relationship ridiculed in a very funny and smart way by Godard through nonsensical rants about a chauvinist and contradictory idiot played with style by an early Belmondo. I love how Collette is the only one identified by name in the title and portrayed as the one actually carrying on with life as the male idiot is stuck in never-ending downwards spirals of impotence and indecision. Verbose as any Godard project would be during the Nouvelle Vague, but for all the good reasons, as comedy is the purpose.
82/100
Before taking a deep breath and plunging into the world of feature films at the start of a new decade, Jean-Luc Godard shot his last short of the '50's in a hotel room with his soon-to-be Breathless leading man Jean-Paul Belmondo featuring in an amusing snippet with a nice closing punchline.
Trivia Note: Even though it's Jean-Paul up there on screen lecturing his girlfriend, the voice you hear coming from his lips is in fact Jean-Luc's after the star was called away for military service before the soundtrack was recorded!
"I'm sorry, I'm talking like an actor" takes on a new meaning when you see Godard dubbed in his own voice hahaha
"Every sentence I say is logically linked to the one before. Don't act dumb. You must stay. It's Cartesian logic."
This early short from the Nouvelle Vague avatar features all of Jean-Luc Godard's trademark misogyny but little of the concomitant aesthetic brilliance that would serve to ameliorate it in the coming years. It takes the form of a lengthy diatribe from a jilted lover culminating in his pro forma comeuppance; excepting a hilariously demonstrative sigh from Charlotte when Jules labels her a naughty rascal, the film is only mildly amusing.
Jean-Paul Belmondo was initially reluctant when Godard offered him about a hundred dollars to appear in the film (which was to be shot in his hotel room), evidently worried the…
Very funny Godard short about Charlotte (Anne Collette) who goes to visit her ex (Jean-Paul Belmondo) at his bedsit. Barely giving her time to say anything, he launches into a confused rant, assuming that she's come to ask to get back together with him again. He criticises her, and declares love and a variety of ill-thought out rude opinions.
Stylistically, this is clearly practice for A bout de souffle.
I possibly found it especially funny because I once had an on-off relationship with a man who never stopped talking and opinionating ... and if he'd been quite that critical and rude in 2003, or 2004, or 2005, we possibly would have saved ourselves some trouble.
Whilst the Belmondo character's misogyny is definitely dated, the general theme of the film feels pretty timeless and current fashions are such that he in his Breton top and she in her print dress would look pretty cool today.
A self-obsessed softboi belittles his ex-girlfriend in an attempt to win her back while she silently mocks him. One of those satires of a thing (in this case, misogyny) that one gets the feeling comes from personal experience on the wrong side of the issue. Mildly diverting and occasionally amusing, but runs out of ideas long before it ends.
if your satire of toxic masculinity is having the lady silently mock the man while he delivers a 12 minute vitriolic monologue (literally in the voice of the director) before getting his comeuppance, is it really a satire? 🤔
People like to accuse Godard of not understanding women, and maybe that’s true, but men tend to be the most ridiculous and absurd characters in his films.
A self-obsessed softboi belittles his ex-girlfriend in an attempt to win her back while she silently mocks him. One of those satires of a thing (in this case, misogyny) that one gets the feeling comes from personal experience on the wrong side of the issue. Mildly diverting and occasionally amusing, but runs out of ideas long before it ends.
JLG was next on the Criterion list and I was loathe to not follow the order cus that's what I've arbitrarily decided to do. Anyway, I wasn't in the mood for a big boy so I just went through all his titles to find a short film to tape over the gap and satisfy my very thin film watching goals.
I think I made the right decision because basically every film description had something to do with a man and/or a female sex worker and then this short film was just a man calling his ex gf a bitch but he'd take her back cus he knows how much she needs him ??
I am le tired.
Jean-Paul Belmondo as a talkative, abusive ex and Anne Colette as the mocking, almost silent woman star in Godard's Charlotte et son Jules. This "tribute to Cocteau" is a long winded joke, but nonetheless the punchline lands despite dubious dread. Belmondo (dubbed by Godard, if I recall) plays well with Colette, and it's an interesting duo. The only problem is that it's ultimately about an asshole I don't particularly care about. Good riddance to his ass.
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