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
Contempt (1964)
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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
Genre: Foreign Films
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... [More]
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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Reviews for Contempt
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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