A Married Woman

Rafael Zen

Calm, sexy and emersive, this movie is pure mood on screen. As contemporary as alusive, it was my first imersion on Godard's cinema. Beautiful start. Makes me get imediately into a certain vibe: the one when I have to watch more movies. You know that feeling?

RITA

The insight Godard has into women's feelings and thoughts is simply amazing. In the end, I really had to stop and think "wait this was actually done by a man". Godard never ceases to amaze me - it's unbelievable the sensibility he shows, he a rational genius "who speaks like a book" (like Simon Cinéma said). Afterall, he's not only a philosopher, he's also an artist, and in the end the artist is nothing but human.

Jesse Furgurson

Features the single most gorgeous use of negative photography I've ever seen. And, being JLG, has some other things going for it, too.

smndvdcl

Film language revolutionised. The suggestiveness of a lovemaking scene through partitioned body parts: limbs, faces, hands, feet - an abstraction of the act to emphasise the small gestures which represent the whole.

Duncan Gray

Of all the Big Canonical directors, Godard may be the most difficult. So if someone is potentially interested but finds Contempt or Pierrot Le Fou bewildering, my advice is this: show them Une Femme Mariée, which adds to his favorite themes and modernist methods an accessible narrative and a real pathos for men and women alike. Rich and critical, with a depth of feeling that Contempt wouldn't (or couldn't) attempt.

Lynch/Fellini

This ponderous film on the subject of sexuality and love is fascinating and so well framed. In other words, typical Godard!

glhrmefc

One of the most interesting films I've seen recently. The scenes of the hands, the thoughts, the use of the negative and the final scene, all this made this movie charming

Ludovic72

Sur un thème archi-classique (l'hésitation entre le mari et l'amant), Godard montre que son cinéma peut être absolument sensuel, tout en gardant sa redoutable intelligence analytique. La fragmentation des corps et des discours - naviguant entre intimité et société, entre intelligence et publicité, entre oral et écrit - illustre la complexité des rapports humains et leur indécision. Et quelle science du cadrage !