Preceded by-Romeos et jupettes (Jacques Rozier, 1967): Romeos and Skirts. Some aspects of the junior mode presented in the form of a personal ad. (11 mins, In French with English subtitles, Color, 35mm) (Masculin Féminin). A film about "the children of Marx and Coca Cola" by the child of Brecht and Hollywood. Godard announces it as "fifteen precise actions" but it is the dance between precision and improvisation that makes it a film of great and surprising beauty. This is Pierrot le fou facing reality: Godard takes an anti-narrative, essay-like approach to a love story set when love is finally impossible, the year 1965. Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud), fresh out of the army and fatigued, sets about trying to find la tendresse among the young set in Paris. He falls in love with Madeleine (Chantal Goya), an aspiring yé-yé singer, but her estrangement from passion is a little like that of Natasha in Alphaville: it doesn't compute, and Paul's Hollywood-style romancing doesn't help. A Party member, Paul spends his time working on behalf of political causes (to which Madeleine and her friends are oblivious), and takes a job for a magazine interviewing Parisians (also oblivious). That's the story, but Godard doesn't "tell" it: what we see is rather like a highbrow comic book, a pastiche of skits and journalistic bits, encounters and opinon polls, an introduction to the omnipresence and omnipotence of media, and the vast unconcern of the people.