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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
Scenes from a marital breakdown between screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot), as both become enmeshed in the behind-the-camera struggles of a director (Fritz Lang) and ...
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- Brigitte Bardot
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Drama
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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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 · This sadness abounds in Contempt, with which Godard created a gorgeous CinemaScope movie paradise of sin and spiritual and physical dilapidation.
Feb 26, 2008 · Contempt (1963) -- (Movie Clip) A Story Of That World Ever unorthodox Jean-Luc Godard narrates his own credits, the opening to his 1963 movie-business tale Contempt, starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli and Jack Palance, from a novel by Alberto Moravia.
