Product Description

“Godard is to his medium what Joyce, Stravinsky, Eliot, and Picasso were to theirs.” –The Village Voice

Legendary French New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard reverses the standard love triangle and challenges the influence of consumer culture in one of his most provocative dissections of modern life.

Charlotte (Macha Méril) aimlessly drifts between morning affairs with the artistic Robert (Bernard Noël) and mundane evenings with her paternalistic husband Pierre (Philippe Leroy). Unsure of whether she loves either man, Charlotte discovers she is pregnant and must come to terms with her emotional infidelities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43417 in DVD
• Brand: KOCH ENT.
• Released on: 2009-06-02
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: French
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Features

• UNE FEMME MARIEE A MARRIED WOMAN (DVD MOVIE)

Customer Reviews

Essential Godard
As a Godard fan I would rank this film ahead of some of his other higher profile films. It is a much more impressive cinematic experience than Le Petit Soldat, Bande a Part, Le Chinoise or Masculin Feminin. The story (basically a sociological study, not a psychological one) is concise and focused. Coutard's cinematography is surpassed perhaps only by Contempt and Prenom Carmen. What is truly amazing is this film went through pre-production, filming, editing to completion in under 30 days! The DVD has no extras but the transfer looks amazing.

Intriguing Character Study
"Une Femme Mariee" follows Charlotte (Macha Meril ("Belle de Jour," "Deep Red") through the course of one day as she learns she is pregnant and is unsure if the father is her possessive, jealous husband (Philippe Leroy, "La Femme Nikita"), who regards her as a trophy wife, or her lover, Robert (Bernard Noel, "La Ronde"), an actor who treats her merely as a sex object. To further complicate matters, Charlotte is besieged by images of the new consumerist society of the 1960's.
Director Jean-Luc Godard was voted the third-greatest filmmaker ever -- behind only Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock -- by the latest "Sight and Sound" poll of the world's leading film critics. "Une Femme Mariee," in French with English subtitles, is a moving portrait of a modern woman fighting back after being reduced to little more than a sexual commodity in this 1964 film.