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Overview

In this devastating attack on international moviemaking, screenwriter Michel Piccoli is approached by vulgar Hollywood producer Jack Palance to pen the screenplay for an epic version of The Odyssey. Piccoli adores the prospect of having his screenplay directed by the great Fritz Lang and willingly subjects himself to Palance's cruelties.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/16/2010
UPC:	0012236107811
Original Release:	1963
Rating:	NR
Source:	Lions Gate
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:43:00
Sales rank:	13,662

Special Features

Introduction by Colin MacCabe, Godard expert; "Once Upon a Time There Was... Contempt": Documentary on the film ; "Contempt...Tenderly": Documentary on the film; Converation with Fritz Lang ; "The Dinosaur and the Baby": Discussion between directors Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Brigitte Bardot	Camille Javal
Jack Palance	Jeremy Prokosch
Michel Piccoli	Paul Javal
Giorgia Moll	Francesca Vanini

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Editorial Reviews

Few French New Wave filmmakers had the opportunity Jean-Luc Godard enjoyed with Contempt -- to make a color, Cinemascope film starring Brigitte Bardot. But when the first cut was delivered, American producer Joseph E. Levine demanded that nudity be added. Godard, ever the iconoclast, inserted a shot scanning the French starlet's bare body, plus some bizarre, color-changing cuts. It wasn't a move to arouse audiences as much as to get commercial obligations out of the way -- which is right in line with the story of the film. Michel Piccoli stars as Paul Pavel, a writer who resentfully sells out with his screen adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Jack Palance plays Jerry Prokosch, the ugly-American producer in charge, who also horns in on Pavel's bored wife Camille (Bardot) as part of this bargain for fame. (It's no coincidence that Godard was not on good terms with Levine.) Palance plays his part so sleazily well that you might believe the actor wasn't in on the joke, and Bardot does more to prove herself as an actress than tarnish her sex-kitten image. Through all this, Contempt carries a mournful tone, the gradual dissolution of Pavel and Camille's marriage paralleling the troubled production. For Godard, the film is also a bereavement for his real-life parting with actress Anna Karina (Bardot at one point dons a Karina-like black wig), as well as a sad nostalgia for a bygone era of cinema, embodied in the aged, subservient director of Pavel's Odyssey, Fritz Lang (who appears as himself). As movies-about-making-movies go, this is Godard through and through, from its impulsive structuralism to its bitter, contemptuous humor.

03/10/2014
The Kin once known as Drothe is coming to terms with his recent advancement to a Gray Prince at the start of Hulick’s middling sequel to Among Thieves. Coming home to the city of Ildrecca with his companion, Fowler Jess, Drothe knows that he will be framed for the murder of fellow underworld leader Crook Eye, but he doesn’t realize the levels of intrigue and double-crossing that will attend his return. The scope of the conspiracy and the scope of the world expand together. Unfortunately, the characters lack the roguish qualities needed to make a story of a thieves’ guild entertaining; Drothe doesn’t show enough wit or intelligence to allow the reader to believe he would survive, let alone rise to power. Ildrecca is a shadow of some of the great settings in fantasy literature, possessing only a passing acquaintance with the richness of culture and detail that made Lankhmar and Sanctuary thriving locales. (May)

Publishers Weekly

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