Une femme mariée
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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Written by | Jean-Luc Godard |
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Bernard Noël Macha Méril |
| Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
| Edited by | Andrée Choty |
| Distributed by | Columbia Films |
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94 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
A Married Woman (French: Une femme mariée) is a 1964 French drama film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, his eighth feature film.
Charlotte meets with her lover, Robert, who wants her to divorce her husband Pierre, and have a child with him. She goes to collect her son – actually her stepson, Pierre's son from his first marriage – from school, then goes to the airport to meet her husband and his colleague, the filmmaker Roger Leenhardt. They have returned from Frankfurt where they observed something of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. They go back to the couple's apartment for dinner. After dinner they discuss the Holocaust and move to the question of memory and the difficulty of commemorating the Holocaust. After Roger's departure Charlotte and her husband play-fight and make love. The next morning the maid tells Charlotte a long story of a sexual encounter – (a text Godard derived from Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Mort a credit). Charlotte then attends a fashion photo-shoot at a swimming pool and listens in at a nearby café as two teenage girls discuss their love life. She goes to the doctor and learns that she is pregnant. She does not know which man is the father. Charlotte and Robert meet at Orly Airport. He is about to fly to Marseille to act in a production of Racine's Bérénice. She questions him about love. As he prepares to leave for his flight she cries and tells him C'est fini -"It's over."
Whilst in Cannes in May 1964 Godard met Luigi Chiarini, the director of the 1964 Venice Film Festival, and offered to make a film that would be completed in three months in time to premiere at Venice - the festival would run from August 27 to September 10. The film would be the story of a woman, her husband, and her lover, and the woman would find out that she is pregnant and not know whose child it is. The situation was mirrored to a great extent in François Truffaut's La Peau Douce, a film Godard admired, that had been based on the story of Truffaut's own infidelity. Godard wrote to Truffaut telling him he would take his film in a different direction if he thought his project too similar. Yet while Truffaut's film was a 'compact, classical melodrama' Godards would be 'an explicitly and stringently modernist film', the melodrama subordinated 'to a surprisingly abstract style of filming'. Having liked André Cayatte's pair of films, Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc/Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise - L'Amour conjugale, 1963, Godard chose Macha Méril, an actress who had featured in both in a supporting role, to play Charlotte.
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