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.
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Plot
Brigitte and Brigitte arrive in Paris to begin their first year of university, studying phonetics and cinema at Nanterres. 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."