SCREENING ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH.

A cool, incisive study of modern life and consumerism, Godard’s eighth film (originally titled The Married Woman, which drew the ire of censors who felt it implied a moral judgement against all married women) follows Charlotte (Macha Méril), a young Parisian wife, torn between her husband, Pierre (Philippe Leroy), and her lover, Robert (Bernard Noël). The film displays how Godard’s style was changing, and we can see the beginnings of the editing and photographic tactics – abstract close-ups, whispered voiceovers, advertising as societal commentary – he would employ for much of the rest of the decade.

Notes by David O’Mahony

Screening as part of Truth, 24 Frames per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard