CONTEMPT (LE MEPRIS)
Jean-Luc Godard - 1963

 

Contempt

CREST THEATRE
Saturday, June 23 - 11:00am

Rendez-vous with film historian J. Greenberg after the screening.

In French with English subtitles.

BANDE ANNONCE (TRAILER)

REVIEWS

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

It emerges as one of Godard's most emotional films. Charles Taylor - Salon.com

What's the price of selling out? Contempt asks the question of its characters, its audience, and its own director. Ty Burr - Boston Globe

A great movie — tender, searing, tragic, arguably the most intimate portrait of the dissolution of a marriage ever filmed. Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly

 

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.

103 min

US Distribution: Cohen Media Group

DRAMA

Not Rated (some nudity)

Cast:
Brigitte Bardot: Camille Javal
Michel Piccoli: Paul Javal
Jack Palance: Jeremy Prokosch
Giorgia Moll: Francesca Vanini
Fritz Lang: Fritz Lang

American film producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) hires respected Austrian director Fritz Lang (playing himself) to direct a film adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey in Capri. Dissatisfied with Lang's treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), a novelist and playwright, to rewrite the script against Lang's will. Javal will lose his soul and his alienated wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot) in the process.

Contempt portrays the end of a marriage, but it is also an examination of the position of the filmmaker in commercial cinema. This was a very personal issue for Godard who, with Contempt, was, for the first time in in his career, working with a big budget under legendary Italian producer Carlo Ponti's supervision, and with a star of Bardot's magnitude.

Contempt is the perfect companion to Godard Mon Amour, Michel Hazanavicius' tongue-in-cheek portrait of Godard, presented this year at the SFFF. Both films portray women falling out of love with their artist husbands...

Shown with 10 MINUTES, NO MORE (10 minutes pas plus) by Antoine de Bujadoux.

CREST THEATRE
Saturday, June 23 - 11:00am
ONE SCREENING ONLY!

Rendez-vous with film historian J. Greenberg after the screening.