French Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard’s
CONTEMPT
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Tuesday, September 5th at 7:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
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. Contempt is a
brilliant study of marital breakdown, artistic compromise, and the cinematic
process. (France & Italy, 1963, 102
mins, French, English, German, Italian | Dir. Jean-Luc Godard)