A Married Woman / Une Femme Mariee
by Jean Luc Godard
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Actor: Bernard Noel, Christophe Bourseiller, Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy, Roger LeenhardtDirector: Jean Luc Godard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Unknown)
Format: Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-01
Studio: New York Film Annex
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Summary: 4 Stars
A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White
Jean-Luc Godard
A sensual farce in which Charlotte, the beautiful young wife of Pierre, must decide whom she will stay with - her possessive husband or her lover, Robert, an actor who appeals to her deep attraction to the present and its fleeting pleasures. Both men want to give her a child. Unknown to either, one of them has already succeeded.
The pleasures of love are beautifully framed in extensive love scenes, stylized close-ups of body parts - bare hands, legs, stomachs and heads - engaged in tender pre- or post-coital caress, often against a canvas of unpatterned bed sheets and walls. It is in these moments that Charlotte seeks to grasp the ineffable and uncontrollable vitality of the present
Political and social critical themes, whose treatment in some of Godard's films make for challenging viewing, emerge in AMW but are subordinate to plot, character development and generous visual allure. The view of the male-female relationship (at least, within the bounds of traditional conjugal relations in 1960's France) focuses lightly but unsentimentally on the deceit, jealousy and violence inherent in it.
Charlotte is aware of her basic relationship of subordination to both men, but she has no thoughts of rebellion. The absence of afterthought is her strength. Contradiction has no purchase within the space she creates for herself.
Don't be put off by the lengthy subtitle, which suggests a fragmented and perhaps unfinished work. This is a luscious, intelligent film whose nuanced view of the female condition can engage post-feminist thinking.
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