DVD Review: Une Femme Mariée
By Ed Grant -- Video Business, 5/25/2009
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> Missing French New Wave nugget from Godard surfaces on disc.
Made in the middle of Jean-Luc Godard’s prolific “golden period” (1959-68), this simple, charming 1964 “essay” on adultery and women’s self-images has never before been legally available on home video. Macha Meril plays the title character, a married woman who is involved in a passionate yet hesitant affair. In the film’s best sequences, Godard offers gorgeously fragmented images of the lovers’ bodies during their trysts, and then whimsically explores contemporary brassiere advertisements in women’s magazines.
Shelf Talk: Une Femme Mariée has long been one of the handful of missing Godard titles from the ’60s, so its DVD release will be eagerly welcomed by fans of the French New Wave and the arthouse clientele in general.
Foreign-language drama, color, NR (mature themes, brief nudity), 94 min., DVD $26.98, in French with English subtitlesExtras: none
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
First Run: L Int’l., 1964
