Brigitte et Brigitte
| Brigitte et Brigitte | |
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| Directed by | Luc Moullet |
| Written by | Luc Moullet |
| Starring | Colette Descombes Françoise Vatel Claude Melki Michel Gonzalès |
| Cinematography | Claude Creton |
Release date |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Brigitte et Brigitte is a 1966 French feature-length film written and directed by Cahiers du cinéma film critic Luc Moullet as his debut film.
Plot
Brigitte and Brigitte arrive in Paris to begin their first year of university, studying phonetics and cinema at Nanterres.[1] They come from different provincial towns and meet on a train station bench. The fashion of their time has shaped them in the same image. They become friends and share the same apartment.
Cast
- Françoise Vatel : Brigitte
- Colette Descombes : Brigitte
- Claude Melki : Léon
- Claude Chabrol : the cousin
- Samuel Fuller : himself
- Éric Rohmer : Professor Schérer
- Michel Gonzalès : Jacques
- Luc Moullet : the road mender and the man who buys newspapers
- Michel Delahaye : the supervisor
- Pierre-Richard Bré : a cinephile
- André Téchiné : a cinephile
- Paul Martin : a student
- Dominique Rabourdin : a spectator sleeping at a showing of L'Avventura
- Jacques Bontemps : a spectator sleeping at a showing of L'Avventura
- Joël Monteilhet : Workman
Reception
Brigitte et Brigitte was praised by Jean-Luc Godard as being a "revolutionary film."
References
- ^ Atlas, Vol. 11 (1966), p. 55.
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