Charlotte and Her Boyfriend

1958 film

3 March 1961 (1961-03-03)^[1]

Running time

13 minutesLanguageFrench

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (French: Charlotte et son Jules) is a 13-minute 1958^[2]^[3] film by Franco-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard. It is shot entirely in or from a hotel room, in which Jules (Jean-Paul Belmondo) gives Charlotte (Anne Collette) a seemingly endless and self-indulgent tirade on her faults and his tribulations. Belmondo's voice is in fact dubbed by Godard.

It is a homage to Jean Cocteau's successful one-act play Le Bel Indifférent [fr], where the roles are opposite.^{[citation needed]}

It can be seen on the Criterion and Optimum DVDs of À Bout de Souffle.^[4]

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Jules
Gérard Blain as The New Boyfriend
Anne Collette as Charlotte
Jean-Luc Godard as Jules (voice)

References

^ McCabe, Colin (2003). Godard Portrait of the Artist at 70. Bloomsbury. pp. 340–341. ISBN 0747563187.
^ McCabe, Colin (2003). Godard Portrait of the Artist at 70. Bloomsbury. pp. 340–341. ISBN 0747563187.
^ Roud, Richard (1967). Godard. Thames and Hudson. pp. 189. ISBN 0500470103.
^ "Breathless".

External links

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend at IMDb
Film page^{[permanent dead link]} at Le Film Guide

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Jean-Luc Godard

Filmography

Feature

Breathless (1960)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Le petit soldat (1963)
The Carabineers (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Bande à part (1964)
A Married Woman (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Week-end (1967)
One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1968)
Joy of Learning (1969)
British Sounds (1969)
Tout Va Bien (1972)
Number Two (1975)
Every Man for Himself (1980)
Passion (1982)
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Hail Mary (1985)
Détective (1985)
King Lear (1987)
Keep Your Right Up (1987)
Nouvelle Vague (1990)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Hélas pour moi (1993)
Les Enfants jouent à la Russie (1993)
JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1995)
For Ever Mozart (1996)
In Praise of Love (2001)
Notre musique (2004)
Film Socialisme (2010)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
The Image Book (2018)

Short and
segment

Operation Concrete (1955)
Une femme coquette (1955)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1957)
A Story of Water (1958)
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
"Sloth" in The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
"The New World" in Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1962)
"Le Grand escroc" in Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1963)
"Montparnasse-Levallois" in Paris vu par (1964)
"Anticipation, ou: l'amour en l'an 2000" in The Oldest Profession (1965)
"Caméra-oeil" in Far from Vietnam (1967)
"L'Amore" in Amore e rabbia (1969)
Letter to Jane (1972)
Here and Elsewhere (1976)
How's it going
A Letter to Freddy Buache (1982)
Soft and Hard (1985)
Meetin' WA (1986)
"Armide" in Aria (1987)
"Le Dernier mot" in The French as Seen by... (1988)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1998)
"Dans le noir du temps" in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010)
"Les Trois Désastres" in 3X3D (2013)
"The Bridge of Sighs" in Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux (2014)
Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" (2023)

Related

Paparazzi (1963 documentary)
Le Parti des choses (1964 documentary)
Two in the Wave (2010 documentary)
One P.M. (1972 documentary)
Redoubtable (2017 biopic)
Groupe Dziga Vertov
Bibliography

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