Brigitte et Brigitte

Brigitte et Brigitte is a 1966 French feature-length film written and directed by Cahiers du cinéma film critic Luc Moullet as his debut film.

Brigitte et Brigitte
Directed by	Luc Moullet
Written by	Luc Moullet
Starring	Colette Descombes Françoise Vatel Claude Melki Michel Gonzalès
Cinematography	Claude Creton
Release date	17 December 1966 (1966-12-17)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Plot

Brigitte and Brigitte arrive in Paris to begin their first year of university, studying phonetics and cinema at Nanterres.^[1] They come from different provincial towns and meet on a train station bench. The fashion of their time has shaped them in the same image. They become friends and share the same apartment.

Cast

• Françoise Vatel : Brigitte
• Colette Descombes : Brigitte
• Claude Melki : Léon
• Claude Chabrol : the cousin
• Samuel Fuller : himself
• Éric Rohmer : Professor Schérer
• Michel Gonzalès : Jacques
• Luc Moullet : the road mender and the man who buys newspapers
• Michel Delahaye : the supervisor
• Pierre-Richard Bré : a cinephile
• André Téchiné : a cinephile
• Paul Martin : a student
• Dominique Rabourdin : a spectator sleeping at a showing of L'Avventura
• Jacques Bontemps : a spectator sleeping at a showing of L'Avventura
• Joël Monteilhet : Workman

Reception

Brigitte et Brigitte was praised by Jean-Luc Godard as being a "revolutionary film."