Five Facts about Chantal Goya

(Note: Dan, the guy whose idea this site was [and its only other regular contributor] is headed for France with his girlfriend, April. That finally inspired me to finish this. Think of the appropriateness. THINK ABOUT IT.)

1. She's French. (She was born in Saigon, but at the time it was part of French Indochina.)
2. She was a yé-yé girl, which basically means French pop singer from the '60s. The only other one I'm really familiar with is Françoise Hardy, whose first American album was The Yeh-Yeh (sic) Girl from Paris.
3. She was an actress. Her first film was Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin-Féminin (available on DVD from the Criterion Collection), in which she plays the love interest of Jean-Pierre Leaud (probably best known as the kid from The 400 Blows). Oh, and her character is also a yé-yé girl.
4. She is currently neither of these. She gave up both careers in the '70s to make music for children, which she still does to this day. Sayeth Wikipedia: "Her usual character is Marie-Rose, a mix between a maid and an older sister, reminiscent of Julie Andrews in both The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins."
5. She is considered a gay icon in France. Being neither gay nor French, I am still not sure how one becomes an icon, other than a) what Wikipedia says and b) obviously Judy Garland.

And now, to bring everything together, here's an MP3:
chantal goya- tu m'as trop menti.mp3
"Tu m'as trop menti" ("You lied to me too much") is one of six Goya songs to be used in Masculin-Féminin, as well as the one used in the trailer. Like most of Godard's trailers, it consists of randomly-selected scenes from the film edited together with random words (including sections of the title). Goya's song adds a considerable energy to the trailer, and in turn, the images help make the song memorable. Oh, and it's only 1:45.

As far as Godard's leading ladies go, however, my heart still belongs to Anna Karina, particularly in Band of Outsiders.