{"id":77428,"date":"2022-09-13T16:41:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/?p=77428"},"modified":"2022-09-13T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:41:53","slug":"can-i-watch-une-femme-mariee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/can-i-watch-une-femme-mariee\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Watch ‘Une Femme Mari\u00e9e’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spoiler: No, I can’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Luc Godard has died, and in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw writes about the director<\/a> and in particular his love of 1964’s Une Femme Mari\u00e9e<\/em>. While I know and love Breathless<\/em> and Le M\u00e9pris<\/em>, I’ve never seen this film – also known as A Married Woman<\/em>. So I decided to seek it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know where this is going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s obviously not on any of the streaming services – not even candidates like the BFI Player, Mubi or Curzon Home Cinema. It’s certainly not on Netflix or Prime Video. I did <\/em>find it on Google Play Movies, but only in the US. Change to the UK and it’s not available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s OK – I can wait 24 hours for a shiny disc from Amazon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A trawl around there reveals that the Masters of Cinema label did<\/em> have a Blu Ray of it available in the UK, but it’s since been deleted (labels like these only tend to licences to release titles for a set period of time), and copies floating around on the secondary market tend to be in \u00a350-100 range. However, there is an in-print French edition, but that doesn’t come with English subtitles. Similarly, there’s a Spanish market Blu Ray that’s very reasonably priced, but that disc only comes with Spanish subtitles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a US Blu Ray edition from Cohen Media, that seems<\/em> to be encoded to allow Region B (i.e. European) playback. That’d be \u00a335 for me to pick up, and may be the only route for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did check a few of the boxsets as well – sometimes that’s a way to find a single title. There’s a Studiocanal “Essential” Godard boxset, which does include some really good films – including Breathless<\/em> and Le M\u00e9pris<\/em>. But Une Femme Mari\u00e9e<\/em> isn’t among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So there we have it. I either buy the US Blu Ray for around \u00a335 or I don’t see the film. It’s actually cheaper to buy an original press photo or lobby card on eBay than to see the actual film!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s strange that in this time of ubiquitous streaming services and everything in the cloud, it feels like it’s getting harder, not easier, to see old films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bradshaw ends his piece<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is, and was, no one like Godard, and his loss makes this a sombre day. It\u2019s a day to watch Une Femme Mari\u00e9e to be reminded of how exciting and sexy his films were.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, today’s not the day for me to see it. I must wait 14-21 days for my US copy to arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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