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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.

Une femme coquette
Directed by	Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay by	Jean-Luc Godard
Based on	Le Signe by Guy de Maupassant
Starring	Maria Lysandre Roland Tolma
Cinematography	Jean-Luc Godard
Edited by	Jean-Luc Godard
Release date	1955
Running time	9 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

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]

Cast

• Maria Lysandre as The Woman
• Roland Tolma as The Man

Film data

• Runtime: 9 min
• Country: France
• Language: French
• Color: Black and White

See also

• List of avant-garde films of the 1950s
• La boulangère de Monceau (also known as The Bakery Girl of Monceau) (1963) by Éric Rohmer

References

External links

• Une femme coquette at IMDb

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