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Contempt (French: Le Mépris) is a 1963 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the 1954 Italian novel Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon) by Alberto Moravia. It stars Brigitte Bardot , Michel Piccoli , Jack Palance , Fritz Lang , and Giorgia Moll .
Contempt: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll. A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.
Scenes from a marital breakdown between screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot), as both become enmeshed in the behind-the-camera struggles of a director (Fritz Lang) and ...
Contempt (Le Mépris) stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang), a crude and arrogant American producer (Jack Palance), and his disillusioned wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The Odyssey.
Dec 9, 2002 · Certainly Contempt is shot through with film buff references, and it gains veracity and authority from Godard’s familiarity with the business of moviemaking. But far from being asmarty-pants, self-referential piece about films, it moves us because it is essentially the story of a marriage.
There seems to be a prevailing, dual impression of self-therapy at play in Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt, which on the surface is a backstage tragedy about the simultaneous strife on the set of a multinational film shoot and the disintegration of the marriage of the film’s new screenwriter.
Sep 1, 2013 · This sadness abounds in Contempt, with which Godard created a gorgeous CinemaScope movie paradise of sin and spiritual and physical dilapidation.
