Long out-of-circulation and unavailable on home video, Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 masterpiece Une femme mariée, fragments d’un film tourné en 1964 en noir et blanc [A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White] has, until now, represented the ostensibly ‘missing’ key work from the first, zeitgeist-defining phase of JLG’s filmography. The feature which bridges the gap between Bande à part and Alphaville, Une femme mariée is, nevertheless, a galaxy, or gallery, unto itself — a lucid, complex, profoundly funny series of portraits, etched with Godardian acids, of the wife that represents either a singular case, or a universal example, of “a”/”the” married woman, and the men in her orbit.

Macha Méril (later of Pialat’s Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble, and Varda’s Sans toit ni loi) plays Charlotte — the title character. She’s married to aviator Pierre (Philippe Leroy, of Becker’s Le Trou). She sleeps with thespian Robert (Bernard Noël). She talks “intelligence” with renowned critic-filmmaker Roger Leenhardt, and takes part in a fashion-shoot at a public pool. The “fragments” of the film’s subtitle are chapters, episodes, vignettes, tableaux; Une femme mariée is a pile of magazines made into a film, and a film turned into a magazine — the table of contents reading: Alfred Hitchcock. Jean Racine. La Peau douce. A Peruvian serum. Nuit et brouillard. The “Eloquence” bra. The quartets of Beethoven. Madame Céline. Fantômas. Robert Bresson. A Volkswagen making a right turn. — A film shot in 1964, and in black and white.

Designed with Raoul Coutard’s breathtaking cinematography, Godard’s picture captures a moment in time — but all its mysteries, its truths, its beauty, comedy and grace, serve to resolve into a work of art for the ages. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Jean-Luc Godard’s classic, Une femme mariée, in a magnificent new Gaumont restoration for the first time on home video in the UK.

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SPECIAL FEATURES
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Gorgeous new progressive high-definition
transfer of the film in its original aspect
ratio
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New and improved English subtitle
translations
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The original 3-1/2 minute trailer
for the film, created and edited
by Jean-Luc Godard at the
time of the film’s original French release
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80-PAGE BOOK containing: — A new
“overture” by legendary French critic
and filmmaker Luc Moullet
(Les Contrebandières, A Girl Is a
Gun, Les Sièges de l’Alcazar,
Le Prestige de la mort)
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A lengthy roundtable discussion
between Luc Moullet;
writer/critic and American
correspondent for Cahiers du
cinéma, Bill Krohn; and
MoC’s Craig Keller
— on the film, and its relationship
to Godard’s oeuvre from
the 1950s through the 2000s
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A concentrated investigation
into the film by Bill Krohn
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A new statement about the film
by star Macha Méril
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A transcript of Godard’s
late-’70s lecture on Une femme
mariée, originally presented
in Introduction à une véritable
histoire du cinéma, translated
here into English for the first
time
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Relevant excerpts from Jean
Racine’s Bérénice, in
the original French, accompanied
by a new parallel English
translation
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And many notes on the film,
Godard, and modern
DVD production.
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France | 95 min.
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1.37:1 OAR
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black & white
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monaural
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