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- “Contempt” is about men and women rendered graceless by their times, but the movie, substituting rigorous aesthetics for the novel’s psychology, shows us where they (and we) went wrong and achieves an extraordinary grace.
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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.
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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).
Contempt… that’s what ex-typist Bardot has for screenwriter husband Piccoli—but why? Does she think he used her to get a lucrative assignment (a screen adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey) from overbearing American producer Jack Palance? Was it a flirtation with multilingual interpreter Giorgia Moll? Or does she just not love him anymore?
Mar 9, 2008 · Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt” shows a troubled marriage and the modern world in all its stunned dignity and bold color.
Jan 17, 2014 · Jean-Luc Godard's remarkable 'Contempt,' a movie within a movie starring Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance and Fritz Lang, reveals all its gorgeous contradictions in a 50th anniversary restoration.
Jun 12, 2023 · June 12, 2023. 60 years on from its initial release, Jean-Luc Godard’s elegant and layered Le Mépris (Contempt) remains a landmark achievement in his career and the French New Wave. Few directors would try to adapt Homer’s ‘Odyssey’; even fewer would be able to do it successfully.
Sep 16, 2022 · Self-reflexive, mournfully melancholic, and hauntingly beautiful, Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (“Le Mepris”) is a densely allusive work about the world of commercial filmmaking and the dissolution of one marriage.
