Contempt
(Le Mepris)
Screening on Film
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
With Brigitte Bardot , Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance.
France, 1963, 35mm, color, 103 min.
French with English subtitles.
With Brigitte Bardot , Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance.
France, 1963, 35mm, color, 103 min.
French with English subtitles.
Based on Alberto Moravia’s novel Il Disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon), Contempt focuses on the break-up of a marriage while making sharp commentary on international filmmaking. A scriptwriter (Piccoli) and his wife (Bardot) are visited by an American producer (Palance) working on a new version of The Odyssey. Caught between the director (Fritz Lang), who wants to capture the reality of Homer’s world, and the crass producer who imagines a vulgarization of the story, the writer finds his personal and professional life collapsing.
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