Eureka Entertainment has announced that they will bring '
Une Femme Mariee' to Blu-ray as part of their "Masters of Cinema" collection on January 25th in the UK. This disc will feature a newly restored 1.37:1 1080p video presentation, improved English subtitles, and accompanied by an 80-page book.
The sole extra is the original theatrical trailer. The 80-page book will include:
- 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)
- A lengthy roundtable discussion between Luc Moullet; writer/critic and American correspondent for Cahiers du cinéma Bill Krohn; writer/critic Andy Rector; and release producer Craig Keller — on the film, and its relationship to Godard's oeuvre from the '50s through the '00s
- A concentrated investigation into the film by Bill Krohn
- An image-essay by Andy Rector
- A new statement about the film by star Macha Méril
- A transcript of Godard's late-'70s lecture on Une femme mariée, Bergman's Persona, Flaherty's Nanook of the North, and Rossellini's Francesco giullare di Dio, originally presented in Introduction à une véritable histoire du cinéma, translated here into English for the first time
- Excerpts from Jean Racine's Bérénice, in the original French, accompanied by a new parallel English translation
- An editorial preface on the role of Blu-ray and DVD booklets in the modern film-viewing era
- A short aside on the nature of "production stills" reproduced in Blu-ray and DVD booklets, film books, and film magazines
- The reproduction of a late-'70s collage by Godard on the subject of Alfred Hitchcock — A lengthy conversational afterword by Craig Keller and Andy Rector