The Married Woman (1964)

04/12/1964 (FR)•Drama, Romance•1h 35m

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She Loves Two Men... She is Married to One!

Overview

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

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Macha Méril
Charlotte
Bernard Noël
Robert, the Lover
Philippe Leroy
Pierre, the Husband
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A review by CRCulver

7.0

Written by CRCulver on Jul 31, 2018

Jean-Luc Godard's eighth feature film, <i>Une femme mariée</i> (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 <i>Une femme mariée</i> 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 ...