Contempt - Criterion Collection Rating: Release Date: 10 December, 2002 Retail Price: $39.95 OUR Price: $35.99 You SAVE: $3.96! Cast: Brigitte Bardot Michel Piccoli Jack Palance Giorgia Moll Complete Cast (7 total)

Contempt - Criterion Collection Reviews

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Captivé, fasciné, subjugué
Godard est peut-être le seul réalisateur à ne pas avoir eu peur du mythe BB. Le résultat est magnifique : la présence de Bardot, la musique de Delerue, la villa de Malaparte à Capri, le tout réuni avec maestria par Godard adaptant Moravia font de ce film magique un sortilège de séduction irresistible.

A Production Within a Film
When you're married to beautiful, glamorous women as our director
extraordinaire, Jean-Luc-Godard, you have your moments of doubt. You
are an ordinary physical specimen and she is well, Anna Karina, or in
the case of Godard's alter ego, screenwriter, Paul Javal, you have many
moments of self-doubt from bedroom to soundstage with the nubile
Brigitte Bardot. If I give you $30,000 in 1963 money, may I sleep with
your wife? Godard invents yet another, now standard film idea, the
moral curmudgeon: is my significant other a commodity.

Jack Palance leers over Brigitte and certainly, he has enough Hollywood
bucks to install her in his bedroom. In fact, he has enough bucks to
turn a work of art into a mass produced clich�. Skin sells in Peoria.
Palance is printing dollars as he screens films for rubes, but what of
true artists as say, Fritz Lang, the director that made the silent
classic M. Lang works around Palance's interference. He must finish
what he begins. He will not work for the Third Reich, but will work for
Louis Mayer.

Godard works his camera interiors for lengthy, banal conversation
between husband and naked wife. Bardot is beautiful and Godard takes
every opportunity to look at her, sharing with the voyeurs. The star
seems quite comfortable clothed or not. She also looks fine on a
Riviera mansion of the Bauhaus architecture overlooking the
Mediterranean. This is the sea of the Odyssey, which is the film within
a film. Alternatively, should I say there is a production within a
film.

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