Contempt
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DVD-R Details
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 27, 2021
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance & Michel Piccoli | |
Performer: | Giorgia Moll & Fritz Lang | |
Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard | |
Edited by | Agnès Guillemot | |
Screenwriting by | Jean-Luc Godard | |
Original story by | Alberto Moravia | |
Composition by | Georges Delerue | |
Produced by | Georges de Beauregard & Carlo Ponti | |
Director of Photography: | Raoul Coutard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
The miracle here is that for all its use of irony and self-reflexive devices, Le Mepris still ends up with a considerable emotional punch.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 5/5 --
Steeped in melancholy and a sense of mourning.
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Observer (UK)
Godard's masterpiece works on several levels: as a self-reflexive satire about filmmaking, as a study of relationship in its dying throes and as a reworking of a classical myth.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
Godard was the artist who tore cinema apart and rebuilt it to suit his own interests and ends.
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CineVue
Sardonically scripted, it was shot in luminous Mediterranean locales...
Total Film
Rating: 4/4 --
"Contempt" transports us back to another era: an early '60s world in which the classicism of the past...is juxtaposed with the emptiness and ennui of modern culture.
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Chicago Tribune
...[Bardot] seems very natural...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Jean-Luc Godard's cynical look at the art of filmmaking follows a screenwriter in his attempts to recount Homer's THE ODYSSEY. Full of insights into the compromises required of filmmakers, as well as autobiographical allusions, especially concerning the failed union of Godard and actress Anna Karina, 1964's CONTEMPT is one of the most widely recognized films about the filmmaking process. It is also considered the film that made Godard realize that lavish productions were not for him, sending him back into a lower-budget world where he could maintain complete control over his films. Shot in glorious CinemaScope by Raoul Coutard, CONTEMPT is a poignant artistic commentary and a dramatic exposé of a dying marriage.
Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is struggling with Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance), the manipulative American producer financing his big-budget venture, and is frustrated by Fritz Lang (playing himself), the film's egotistical director. Concomitantly, his marriage to his gorgeous wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot) founders, and the emotional distance between them weighs heavily upon him.
Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is struggling with Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance), the manipulative American producer financing his big-budget venture, and is frustrated by Fritz Lang (playing himself), the film's egotistical director. Concomitantly, his marriage to his gorgeous wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot) founders, and the emotional distance between them weighs heavily upon him.
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- Sales Rank: 25,188
- UPC: 887936974014
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