Jean-Luc Godard-Charlotte et Véronique (1959)

Students Veronique and Charlotte meet the same man separately, who makes a date with each of them separately the next evening. When they both show up, he shows up, too, with a third women... (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051102/plotsummary)


Charlotte and Veronique are flatmates. One day they both go out separately and take lunch alone by the same park. Charlotte is approached and chatted up by a guy called Patrick and they agree to meet the next day. Later, Veronique is also approached by the same man and chatted up. When they get home they talk about their days and are amused to find that they both met men called Patrick on the same day – but their respective beaus seem so very different they conclude that that must be the only connection. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051102/usercomments)



Godard's first short film set in Paris is also memorable for being the only time thus far that he has directed a film from someone else's script. The film is essentially a slight comedy about two women who meet the same guy without realising it and then go to meet each other's 'Patrick'. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051102/usercomments)



More Rohmer than Godard... : A simple story of two longtime girl friends and room mates who unknown to each other each meet the same young man in a park on the same day. He uses almost the same pick up line with each woman and spends about 40 minutes at a café wooing each of them. Both women are smitten and both agree to meet him for dinner on one of the following evenings. They are surprised when comparing notes that they both met a Patrick, but then the next day are together when by chance they see him use the same moves on another girl near the park. Nice acting by the women, and classic Rohmer attention to details of the heart. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051102/usercomments)



One of Godard's earliest, before going into full-feature length films, this looks more like what Eric Rohmer would do -- and no wonder: he wrote the script. There's a naturalistic element to the way both girls interact with each other, although their approach to "Patrick" is quite different even when being slightly cagey in the beginning, yielding to a gradual openness that is much in part due to "Patrick's" charm which seduced them. There's also a strong, Silent movie tone throughout CHARLOTTE ET VERONIQUE'S entire run, enhanced not only by the quirkiness of the girl's performances themselves but also in Jean Claude Brialy's (Jerome in Rohmer's Claire) own manic presence (slightly suggesting Charlie Chaplin) who fits the time and place of the movie but would today garner a much different reaction (http://imdb.com/title/tt0051102/usercomments)


Charlotte's hair-style was a sign of next year's Jean Seberg in Godard's debut feature "À bout de souffle (1960)".





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66 Andrzej Wajda-Ashes and Diamonds (1958) http://www.avaxhome.ws/misc_and_web/ashes_and_diamonds_by_wajda.html
67 Eric Rohmer-Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) http://www.avaxhome.ws/misc_and_web/maud_by_rohmer.html
68 Henning Carlsen-Hunger ('Svält') (1966) http://www.avaxhome.ws/misc_and_web/hunger_by_carlsen.html
69 Ermanno Olmi-L'Albero degli zoccoli (1978) http://www.avaxhome.ws/misc_and_web/albero_degli_zoccoli_by_olmi.html
70 Eric Rohmer-Le Genou de Claire (1970) http://www.avaxhome.ws/misc_and_web/claire_by_rohmer.html
71 Jean-Luc Godard-Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1979) http://www.avaxhome.ws/misc_and_web/sauve_qui_peut_by_godard.html
72 Alain Resnais-La Guerre est finie (1966) http://www.avaxhome.ws/misc_and_web/guerre_est_finie_by_resnais.html
73 Jean-Luc Godard-Charlotte et Véronique (1959)