Une Femme Mariée Blu Ray – Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy 

Long out-of-circulation and unavailable on home-video Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 masterpiece Une femme mari”e fragments d’un film tourn” 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 ” part and Alphaville Une femme mari”e 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 M”ril (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 No”l). 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 mari”e 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 C”line. Fant”mas. 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 mari”e in a magnificent new Gaumont restoration for the first time on blu-ray