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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Our young hero sits in a cafe sipping black coffee. He pulls out a cigarette and with an affected flourish flips it up into his mouth. He glances around, hoping someone appreciates his affected Jean Belmondo coolness. No-one notices, no-one cares. This is Masculin féminin, a portrait of a youth culture that doesn’t quite know what to do with itself other than to regurgitate pop iconography, yell political slogans and screw. As the film famously declaims: “These are the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.”
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