Charlotte is young and modern, not a hair out of place, superficial, cool; she reads fashion magazines – does she have the perfect bust? She lives in a Paris suburb with her son and her husband Pierre, a pilot. Her lover is Robert, an actor.
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Remarkably chilly and precise even for the legendary director, providing a peek at where his career would head after his run of comparatively quasi-populist 1960s-era hallmarks. A Married Woman is exhilarating in its masterful suggestion of how fictional films could formally evolve, utilizing documentary and image and narrative fragmentation in fashions that have proven to be greatly influential.
The film heralded a major leap in Godard’s evolution as an artist, announcing the arrival of a sophistication further honed the next year in Alphaville and Pierrot le Fou. But it’s also an extraordinarily rich and provocative picture in its own right.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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 !