Contempt
original film poster
Directed by	Jean-Luc Godard
Produced by	Carlo Ponti Georges de Beauregard Joseph E. Levine
Written by	Alberto Moravia (novel) Jean-Luc Godard
Starring	Brigitte Bardot Michel Piccoli Jack Palance Giorgia Moll Fritz Lang
Music by	Georges Delerue Piero Piccioni
Cinematography	Raoul Coutard
Editing by	Agnès Guillemot Lila Lakshmanan
Distributed by	Embassy Pictures Corporation
Release date(s)	October 29, 1963
Running time	103 min.
Language	French/English/German/Italian
Budget	$900,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

Contempt (original French title Le Mépris, Italian title Il Disprezzo) is a film released in 1963, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Image File history File links 1963_Le_mepris_1. ... Jean-Luc Godard (photograph by David Horvitz) Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at... Carlo Ponti (born December 11, 1912, Magenta, Italy) is an Italian film producer. ... Georges de Beauregard (Marseille, 1920 – Paris, 1984) is a notable french film producer who produced films from many of the French New Wave directors. ... Joseph E. Levine (September 9, 1905 – July 31, 1987) was an American film producer. ... Alberto Moravia. ... Jean-Luc Godard (photograph by David Horvitz) Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at... Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, nationalist, singer, animal rights activist, and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s sex kitten. ... Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. ... Jack Palance, (born Volodymyr Palanyuk (Ukr: Володимир Паланюк))on February 18, 1919, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA), is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ... Georges Delerue Georges Delerue (March 12, 1925 Roubaix - 20 March 1992 Los Angeles) was a renowned French film composer who composed over 500 scores for cinema and television. ... Piero Piccioni (Turin, December 6, 1921 - Rome, July 23, 2004), was an Italian pianist, organist, conductor, composer, and author of more than 100 film soundtracks. ... Raoul Coutard is a French cinematographer who has contributed to over seventy five films. ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Jean-Luc Godard (photograph by David Horvitz) Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at...

It was based on Alberto Moravia's 1954 Italian-language novel Il disprezzo. Alberto Moravia. ...

Plot

American movie producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) hires respected German director Fritz Lang (playing himself) to direct a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Dissatisfied with Lang's treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), a novelist and playwright, to rework the script. The conflict between artistic expression and commercial opportunity parallels Paul's sudden estrangement from his wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot), who is mysteriously aloof to him after being left alone with his boss, the millionaire playboy Prokosch. A film producer creates the conditions for making movies. ... Jack Palance, (born Volodymyr Palanyuk (Ukr: Володимир Паланюк))on February 18, 1919, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA), is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ... Homer (Greek: , Hómēros) was a legendary early Greek poet and aoidos (rhapsode) traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... Odysseus and Nausicaä - by Charles Gleyre For other uses, see Odyssey (disambiguation). ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, nationalist, singer, animal rights activist, and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s sex kitten. ...

In a notable sequence, the characters played by Piccoli and Bardot wander through their apartment alternately arguing and reconciling, Bardot playing the petulant young wife in a way that became definitive of the style. The sequence was memorably filmed in an extended series of tracking shots, in natural light and in near real-time.

Where it was Filmed

Contempt was filmed and takes place entirely in Italy, with location shooting at the landmark Cinecittà studios near Rome and the Casa Malaparte on Capri. Cinecittà (Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban... Casa Malaparte (also Villa Malaparte) is a house on Punta Massullo, on the eastern side of the Isle of Capri, Italy, at 40° 32′ 44″ N 14° 15′ 37″ E. The house was designed around 1937 by Italian Rationalist architect Adalberto Libera, although many consider owner... Capri (Italian pronunciation Cápri, usual English pronunciation Caprí) is an Italian island off the Sorrentine Peninsula. ...

The film is often considered one of Godard's best, and an integral entry of the French New Wave. It was inducted into the Criterion Collection in 2002 as Spine #171. François Truffauts New Wave film Jules et Jim The New Wave (French: la Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism. ... The Criterion Collection is a joint venture between Janus Films and The Voyager Company that was begun in the mid 1980s for the purpose of releasing authoritative consumer versions of classic and important contemporary films on the laserdisc and DVD formats. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Jack Palance hurling a film canister like a discus in Le Mépris. Painted on the wall behind is a quote by Louis Lumière: "Il cinema è un’invenzione senza avvenire." ("The cinema is an invention without any future.")

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Trivia

Camille Javal is Brigitte Bardot's real name. Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, nationalist, singer, animal rights activist, and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s sex kitten. ...

External links

• Contempt at the Internet Movie Database
• Criterion Collection essay by Phillip Lopate
• Video of Raoul Coutard at the Peoples Archive