Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Une femme mariée (1964)

English title: A Married Woman.

A woman cheats on his husband, an aviator, with an actor.

When one follows a filmmaker's career, and that filmmaker is a complete author, that is an interesting experience. Someone's art ages in a similar manner to how a person ages. His youth films look like masterpieces when compared to his middle-age films, which in turn look like masterpieces when compared to his old age movies. But I stress: I am referring only to full authors: people who write original scripts and direct them. Well, to Une femme mariée, then. This film is an amusing critique of sixties' advertising and the effect they had on women; also amusing is the contrast between the protagonist's frivolous life and the matters which occupied the minds of reputedly serious people, emblematized by the topic of concentration camps. Not particularly brilliant, but overall interesting enough.

Rating: 51

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