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.
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.
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