Relatively minor Godard.
A Married Woman (1964)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:8
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Famed auteur Jean-Luc Godard's fascination with the female race continues with A MARRIED WOMAN, an unconventional cinematic portrait of a woman who is at a crossroads in her life. Charlotte (Macha... Famed auteur Jean-Luc Godard's fascination with the female race continues with A MARRIED WOMAN, an unconventional cinematic portrait of a woman who is at a crossroads in her life. Charlotte (Macha Meril) is a beautiful young wife and stepmother, who also happens to have fallen in love with Robert (Bernard Noel), a charming actor. While her husband, Pierre (Philippe Leroy), is away on business, she and Robert continue to spend time together in a hotel. When Pierre returns, Charlotte must lie in order to cover up her infidelities. She eventually learns that she is pregnant, forcing her to choose between a life with her husband, or a fresh new start with Robert. Shot in a series of extreme close-ups that mostly focus on Charlotte's flesh, Godard shows his obvious reverence for the female body. He also allows his actors the time to express their own confusion and philosophies--most notably in an extended dinner sequence. Godard's intellectual approach to male-female relationships, and especially the institution of marriage, is on full display with this influential drama, in a similar manner to the director's MY LIFE TO LIVE, TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER, and CONTEMPT. [More]
Starring: Macha Meril, Bernard Noel, Philippe Leroy, Rita Maiden
Starring: Macha Meril, Bernard Noel, Philippe Leroy, Rita Maiden
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Reviews for A Married Woman
As Godard films go, it's not one of his best, but it stands out because of the controversy and his portrayal of sex, which is still quite subtle and erotic.
The result is one of his most important and provocative dissections of modern life.
... effortlessly and damningly dissect[s] the ugliness of beauty culture.
If Jean-Luc Godard isn't careful he is going to shoot his way right out of the avant-garde -- out of the idolatrous affection of all those cinema buffs who go for movies that are formless and obscure.
One of Godardīs most formally precise films of the early 60s, remarkable considering the hurried shooting schedule.
...one of Godard's most approachable, conventionally plotted movies. It merges the director's interest in social constructs with a curiosity about individual emotions often obscured in his work.
This is still Godard's view of life in France in 1964, and one of his most sociological films, as well as one of his most formally accomplished.
... at the time it was one of Godard's most critically acclaimed films and remains one of the most financially successful films of his career.
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