| 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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Brigitte et Brigitte was praised by Jean-Luc Godard as being a "revolutionary film."
References
[edit]- ^ Atlas, Vol. 11 (1966), p. 55.
External links
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