Le Mépris (1963)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 103 minuten
Alternative titles: Contempt / De Verachting / Il Disprezzo
Country:
France / Italy
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli and Jack Palance
IMDb score:
7,4 (37.262)
Releasedate: 29 October 1963
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Le Mépris plot
"More Bold! More Brazen! And Much, Much More Bardot!"
A French writer in Rome is wooed by a Hollywood producer for commercial adaptations of an Odyssey film adaptation. In doing so, he feeds the indefinable contempt of his wife. An almost classical tragedy in the reflections on the eternal value of art and the instability of individual emotions.
Actors and actresses
Camille Javal
Paul Javal
Jeremy Prokosch
Francesca Vanini
Fritz Lang
Cameraman
Lang's Assistant Director
Sirene
Reviews & comments
Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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I am starting to enjoy the Nouvelle Vague more with directors who clearly leave their mark on their film and add the necessary layering to it. Le Mépris has been adapted from a book, but Godard still makes his thing with it. His use of colour, the dialogues, the characters but also the link to his own reality. With the presence of Fritz Lang and the fact that an American producer wants to make a film with the character of Brigitte Bardot. In real life, the film mainly got money with the condition that Brigitte Bardot played along.
It wasn't Godard's favorite movie, probably because of the conditions imposed on him to make it. But that doesn't mean he didn't make it into a Godard movie. Creative (think of reading to the cast & crew or the interpreter who takes care of the translations between English, French and German). Nice movie!
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Sergio Leone
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Pretty okay.
Way better than À Bout de Souffle, which was my first encounter with Jean-Luc Godard. Le Mépris is much better cinematically. The student vibe is gone, the film looks much more mature - but still with a nice find here and there.
The best of those finds are actually the first 10 minutes - with the credits being read aloud. Great find, and also fits into the story, which is partly about making a film. Then follows another great, colorful scene with the ravishing Brigitte Bardot in that bed. They are simple things, but I was immediately drawn into the film by it.
After those scenes, the best is over. The film can no longer top that, although it is audiovisually worth the effort for the entire running time. Very nice soundtrack and visually very atmospheric shot. Godard also makes clever use of the setting.
But where the film loses me a bit is that it becomes a talking bar along the way. Those long scenes aren't even badly made - Bardot and Michel Piccoli are good acting - but they're just not interesting. In the end, it's just relational drivel, or worse, far-fetched relational drivel.
Nevertheless, Le Mépris invites us to further explore Godard's oeuvre. I'm curious if there is still stretch (in the right direction). The potential is certainly there.
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Fisico (moderator films)
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What a strange approach to film. Always an interesting movie about a movie. But who stands out the most here is the dazzling Brigitte Bardot. Beautiful scenes with her in bed, stylistic and stylish. Can be admired in maximum nakedness from the time perspective of that time. Furthermore, a film that stands out above all technically. Excellent camera work and cinematography. Interesting dialogues also between the two main protagonists as a feuding couple. But to fascinate me as a whole, it doesn't.
I missed the underlying clue and content. I would have to see the movie again for that. The parallels with the Odyssey story meant too little to me. Maybe give it another try later.
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