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In _Masculin-Feminin_, "The Signal" serves only as the basis for the
vaguely Bergman-esque film-within-a-film (some critics saw it as a parody
of _The Silence_, but who knows) which Jean-Pierre Leaud and friends watch,
desultorily, in a seedy Parisian moviehouse. So strictly speaking, "The
Signal" doesn't really feed into _M-F_'s narrative proper. (Of course,
Godard being Godard, one could also make the same observation of "Paul's
Mistress.")
Chris Sieving
>Would Godard's Masculine-Feminine (a personal favorite) fit with what's
>being asked for? It's supposedly based on two short stories by De
>Maupassant (sp?), one called "Paul's Mistress" and the other called "The
>Signal." I haven't read any of these, so I'm not exactly sure how they were
>combined into the film. In addition, Godard doesn't seem the type to do
>straightforward adaptation, so I have no idea how much MF differs from its
>source material.
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>Hope this helps,
>Andrew
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