CLASSIC FILM SERIES

Contempt (1963)

“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.."
- Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

“Possibly Godard's most melancholy film and probably his most beautiful.”
- Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice

SYNOPSIS: Jean-Luc Godard’s subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. 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. This classic film is brilliant study of marital breakdown, artistic compromise, and the cinematic process..