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Sep 5, 1997 · The film is about a failed playwright (Michel Piccoli) who is hired by a corrupt American producer (Jack Palance) to work on the script of a movie by a great veteran director (Fritz Lang, playing himself).
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Sep 1, 2013 · The film’s startling point is that none of these aesthetic sensations matter one whit in the face of emotional devastation—in those desperate times where no cultural bauble will distract you from the uncomfortable sight of your deepest interior realms.
92% Tomatometer 66 Reviews 85% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings Scenes from a marital breakdown between screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot), as both become enmeshed in the...
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Dec 9, 2002 · Contempt, one of Jean-Luc Godard’s greatest masterpieces, has a stately air that breaks with the filmmaker’s earlier, throwaway, hit-and-run manner, as though he were this time allowing himself to aim for cinematic sublimity.
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.
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Diane Carson KDHX (St. Louis) Iconoclastic, Godard reinterprets formulaic cinema and creates his own idiosyncratic technical and thematic approach....
Mar 9, 2008 · The world of “Contempt” is epic in a new way: a world growing in harmony, not opposition, with artifice. Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt” shows a troubled marriage and the modern world in ...
