Contempt | reviewed by: Scott Crick | February 12, 2012
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A true classic, with Godard gleefully ripping down the barrier between the viewer and the film over and over. Plus Brigitte Bardot is hot!
genre | Drama | foreign |
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synopsis | Contempt / Le Mépris is a film about filmmaking. Godard’s Masterfully staged melodrama tells of a woman’s love for a middle-class lifestyle and how a film maker must buy it for her while at the same time working as a writer for the film ‘The Odyssey’ to be directed by Fritz Lang. |
lead actors | Brigitte Bardot | Michel Piccoli | Jack Palance | Giorgia Moll | Fritz Lang | Raoul Coutard | Jean-Luc Godard | Linda Veras |
director | Jean-Luc Godard |