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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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Jean-Luc Godard
- 1964-12-18
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).
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.
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.
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.
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Not only is CONTEMPT a film which burlesques the Hollywood style, but like other films Godard admired, such as Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BOULEVARD and Robert Aldrich’s THE BIG KNIFE, it is a film which subjects the institutions of Hollywood moviemaking to ruthless examination.
