“we’d often go to the movies. we’d shiver as the screen lit up. but more often, madeline and i would be disappointed. more often we’d be disappointed. the images flickered. marilyn monroe looked terribly old. it saddened us. it wasn’t the film we had dreamed, the film we all carried in our hearts, the film we wanted to make… and secretly wanted to live.” - masculin feminin (jean-luc godard, 1968)