Contempt (1964)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 34 Fresh: 32 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.3/10
Consensus:
This powerful work of essential cinema joins "meta" with "physique," casting Brigite Bardot and director Godard's inspiration Fritz Lang.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 14, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard's cynical look at the art of filmmaking follows a screenwriter in his attempts to recount Homer's THE ODYSSEY. Full of insights into the compromises required of filmmakers, as well as autobiographical allusions, especially concerning the failed union of Godard and... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Carlo Ponti, Georges De Beauregard, Joseph E. Levine
Composer: Georges Delerue
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Carlo Ponti, Georges De Beauregard, Joseph E. Levine
Composer: Georges Delerue
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Reviews
What's the price of selling out? Contempt asks the question of its characters, its audience, and its own director.
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04/11/08
Top Critic
Godard has finally dared to get serious, achieving not mock pathos but a perfect tragedy.
03/14/08
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02/09/06
It's talky and filled with broken rhythms and a running stream of thoughts, and is boldly told in exaggerated stylized terms.
11/06/05
An expensive international production, but still one of Godard's most personal and most perverse films.
08/09/04
Godard sets interesting scenes, with provocative color combinations and a suggestive pictorial flow. But out of it all comes nothing -- or very little that tells you why this wife is so contemptuous of her husband. Maybe he should be contemptuous of her!
05/20/03
Top Critic
Screw Adaptation and its lack of temerity. Contempt is a meta-movie that places the onus back on the viewer. How are we to sensibly respond, and is there any sense in that at all?
02/15/03
While Contempt is seen by many as Godard’s most "commercial" or "mainstream" film, it is also one of his most emotionally stirring and deeply felt.
12/29/02
A superlative film about many things, including the making of a film, the break-up of a married couple, and the parallels between the contemporary New Wave world (of 1963) and the classical (Old Wave) world of Homer.
12/12/02
It is not just the uniqueness of the narrative structure or the boldly original story that make Contempt such a fantastic film, but also Godard’s typically original and mind-bogglingly beautiful imagery that make the it one of a kind.
09/21/02
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