Can't say they didn't ask for it. This is a cute and quirky little B&W short film lasting roughly 20 minutes. 2 best friends who share an apartment together happen to run into the same boy on the very same day and after, initially, playing hard to get both agree on a date so they can see him again.Now, back at home they tell each other about their encounters without finding out what really is going on while playfully mocking the other's taste in men. There's one moment during the conversation where one girl asks the other what did he say and I expected either reciting the "Who planted the first trees in Paris"- or "Girls always have cousins"-lines, so they would finally see through it, but it's not happening. Instead they're joking around about fitting both their boyfriends into the same bed and going on a double date to the movies.So when will they find out and how long can Patrick keep up the juggling game. In the final scene we find out which of the girls he picks. Was it your favorite of the two?

An enchanting short, which tells the story of Charlotte and Veronique, two bright young things who share an apartment in the city and happen to meet the same man without realizing it (and the question ever being solved). One of Godard's earliest, before going into full-feature length films, this looks more like what Eric Rohmer would do -- and no wonder: he wrote the script. There's a naturalistic element to the way both girls interact with each other, although their approach to "Patrick" is quite different even when being slightly cagey in the beginning, yielding to a gradual openness that is much in part due to "Patrick's" charm which seduced them. There's also a strong, Silent movie tone throughout CHARLOTTE ET VERONIQUE'S entire run, enhanced not only by the quirkiness of the girl's performances themselves but also in Jean Claude Brialy's own manic presence (slightly suggesting Charlie Chaplin) who fits the time and place of the movie but would today garner a much different reaction. It's not hard, as a matter of fact, to delete any references to the late Fifties and incorporate the setting into the Twenties where the action had a sped-up quality and the meeting of the young man with his latest conquest was rife with the picaresque just brimming underneath. A cute little movie which is included in the DVD for UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME.

Charlotte and Veronique are flatmates. One day they both go out separately and take lunch alone by the same park. Charlotte is approached and chatted up by a guy called Patrick and they agree to meet the next day. Later, Veronique is also approached by the same man and chatted up. When they get home they talk about their days and are amused to find that they both met men called Patrick on the same day – but their respective beaus seem so very different they conclude that that must be the only connection.Godard's first short film set in Paris is also memorable for being the only time thus far that he has directed a film from someone else's script. The film is essentially a slight comedy about two women who meet the same guy without realising it and then go to meet each other's 'Patrick'. As a narrative it isn't amazing but it is enjoyable in its delivery if not its final substance. The script is well observed and is fun to watch as the two women are chatted up in an amusing and natural fashion. It may not end as well as I would have liked or have left me with any lasting impression but I enjoyed it while it was on and will come back to it at some point to rewatch it.The cast do very well to deliver the dialogue as if they were really these characters. Collette and Berger are good when separate and it is only when they share the screen in their flat that they come off rather flat and not as natural as they were alone. However I have never lived in a girl flat so maybe the giggling is how they are – but they seemed realer when resisting being chatted up (which says more about my contact with women perhaps!?). Brialy is good value and plays his character(s) well throughout the film.Overall this is an interesting film for several reasons but it is also quite an enjoyable one. The script is natural even if it hasn't got the strongest of narratives or best of conclusions and the cast do well to deliver it in a manner that is believable and natural making Godard's short worth seeing.

A simple story of two longtime girl friends and room mates who unknown to each other each meet the same young man in a park on the same day. He uses almost the same pick up line with each woman and spends about 40 minutes at a café wooing each of them. Both women are smitten and both agree to meet him for dinner on one of the following evenings. They are surprised when comparing notes that they both met a Patrick, but then the next day are together when by chance they see him use the same moves on another girl near the park. Nice acting by the women, and classic Rohmer attention to details of the heart.