Une femme coquette explained

Une femme coquette
Director:Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay:Jean-Luc Godard
Cinematography:Jean-Luc Godard
Editing:Jean-Luc Godard
Runtime:9 minutes
Country:France
Language:French

Une femme coquette (A Flirtatious Woman) (1955) was the first of four short fiction films made by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard preceding his work in feature-length narrative film.

The short film is based on the story Le Signe (The Signal) by Guy de Maupassant. It is a nine-minute story of a woman who decides to copy the gesture she has seen a prostitute make to passing men. Then a young man, played by Roland Tolmatchoff, responds. In Maupassant's original tale the scene takes place indoors, the woman having signaled from her window, but in Godard's revision the characters meet by a bench on the Ile Rousseau in Geneva.[1]

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  1. Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema, p.34