(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.) - She's French. (She was born in Saigon, but at the time it was part of French Indochina.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
