Charlotte and Her Boyfriend

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)

Charlotte et son Jules

This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say much. She just mocks the man and pretends she isn't listening. She pulls faces at him and larks about; while the man is trying his best to get her back in his life, then in the next sentence he says he hates her.

Date of release
1958-12-31
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (60)
Runtime
13m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Collection
Charlotte et Véronique

Casting

Interesting facts

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend is a 1958 short film by Franco-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard. It is shot entirely in or from a hotel room, in which Jules gives his former girlfriend Charlotte a seemingly endless and self-indulgent tirade on her faults and his tribulations. The film's original length was 20 minutes, but it was cut down by a third by British censors.

Production and release

In 1957, Jean-Luc Godard, with the help of Éric Rohmer, began devising a series of short films centered on two young women named Charlotte and Véronique. Godard had previously directed a short documentary, Operation beton, and a short narrative film, Une femme coquette, both in 1955.

Godard first cast his then girlfriend, Anne Collette, for Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick, and she returned for his second film in the series. While on the set of Sois belle et tais-toi, Collette introduced Godard to fellow actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, at the time a theatre actor without much film experience.

After filming, the project was left aside for months, until a promise by director Jacques Becker to screen it alongside his next film influenced Braunberger to fund the film's dubbing. Belmondo was unable to dub his lines due to his service in Algeria, and allowed Godard to do it himself on the condition that he cast Belmondo in his first feature film.

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