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Une Femme Mariée

Original title: Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964
  • 19641964
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  • 1h 34m
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Une Femme Mariée (1964)
DramaRomance
A superifical woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.A superifical woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.A superifical woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
IMDb RATING
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4K
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    • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Stars
    • Bernard Noël
    • Macha Méril
    • Philippe Leroy
    • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Stars
    • Bernard Noël
    • Macha Méril
    • Philippe Leroy
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    • 13User reviews
    • 44Critic reviews
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    Philippe Leroy and Macha Méril in Une Femme Mariée (1964)
    Macha Méril in Une Femme Mariée (1964)
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    Bernard Noël
    • Robert, the Lover
    Macha Méril
    Macha Méril
    • Charlotte
    Philippe Leroy
    Philippe Leroy
    • Pierre, the Husband
    Christophe Bourseiller
    Christophe Bourseiller
    • Nicolas
    • (as Chris Tophe)
    Roger Leenhardt
    Roger Leenhardt
    • Self
    Margareth Clémenti
    • Girl in Swimming Pool
    • (as Margaret Le-Van)
    Véronique Duval
    • Girl in Swimming Pool
    Rita Maiden
    Rita Maiden
    • Madame Celine
    Georges Liron
    • The Physician
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard
    • The Narrator
    • (uncredited)
      • Jean-Luc Godard
      • Jean-Luc Godard
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    • Trivia
      Macha Méril did her own make-up in the film
    • Quotes

      Charlotte: It's odd. Men will allow for themselves which they won't allow for women.

    • Connections
      Featured in Godard, l'amour, la poésie (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Quand le Film est Triste
      (Sad Movies Make Me Cry)

      Written by John D. Loudermilk

      French lyrics by Georges Aber and Lucien Morisse

      Performed by Sylvie Vartan

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    6/10
    A tale of adultery with some remarkable camera work, and Godard's first rebuke of the rising tide of consumerism in the 1960s
    Jean-Luc Godard's eighth feature film, UNE FEMME MARIÉE (A Married Woman, 1964) is a tale of adultery. As it opens, we meet Charlotte (Macha Meril) at a tryst with her lover Robert (Bernard Noël). Though Robert tries to convince her to divorce her husband, the pilot Pierre (Philippe Leroy), Charlotte's loyalties remain divided.

    Godard labeled UNE FEMME MARIÉE not a "film" but rather "a collection of fragments from a film shot in 1964". However, this is much less avant-garde disjointed than one might expect. Godard chooses a fragment-based means of storytelling for the moments between Charlotte and her lover, presenting a sequence of brief dialogues between the lovers in rapid succession. Each of these self-encapsulated moments serves as another brick in the wall of what we know about the relationship. Such compressed storytelling manages to distill otherwise ineffable interpersonal dramas and feelings. The framing in the scenes between Charlotte and her lover is remarkable: close-up shots of their faces or limbs against featureless backgrounds. Generally the face of the person speaking is not shown and we hear only the words.

    But while there had already been myriad such tales of love triangles through the ages, this film offers something fresh by combining it with a critique of 1960s consumer society. The characters pepper their conversation with commercial jingles, parrot whole advertising texts, or recite factoids. In shots of home life, the latest fancy name-brand cleaning products and electronics are placed prominently in the frame. Charlotte and her maid read women's magazines and see whether they live up to the standards of beauty that the media prescribes. The Auschwitz trials were going on at the same time as shooting, and Godard chose to work references to this into the characters' conversations. In this way, he underscores how consumer society emphasizes thinking about the present, buying whatever is called must-have now, and thus discourages self-reflection and critically gazing on the past. The film's message remains perennially fresh, and I think many viewers will enjoy UNE FEMME MARIEE.

    Godard would take up the "housewife and consumerism" theme again three years later in 2 OU 3 CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE, where this time the housewife prostitutes herself during the day to buy all the nice things that her husband can't. As a critique of consumerism, that later film is more successful inasmuch as it was shot in colour, and thus shows how commercial brands were using brash designs to draw the eye of shoppers. ("If you can't afford LSD," Godard says in a voice-over there, "buy a colour television.") However, UNE FEMME MARIEE is not just a rough sketch for the later film, and I'd even call it a better film, inasmuch as it tells a coherent story while the elements of the later one don't entirely come together for me.
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      • December 4, 1964 (France)
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      • Paris, France
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      • Anouchka Films
      • Orsay Films
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    • 1 hour 34 minutes
      • Black and White
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