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Contempt: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll. A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.
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- Drama, Romance
- Jean-Luc Godard
- 1964-12-18
Paul Javal, a young French playwright who has found commercial success in Rome, accepts an offer from vulgar American producer Jerry Prokosch to rework the script for German director Fritz Lang's screen adaptation of the Odyssey. Paul's wife, Camille Javal, joins him on the first day of the project at Cinecittà. As the first discussions are ...
Written by CinemaSerf on June 10, 2023. A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a ...
1 hr 43 min. 7.5 (36,583) Contempt is a 1963 French-Italian drama movie directed by Jean-Luc Godard, which stars Brigitte Bardot as Camille Javal, a woman who has grown distant from her husband, French writer Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), while working on a film adaption of Homer's Odyssey with American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance).
Bardot's magnificent performance as Camille Javal [she was so good that her character's name was later believed to be her real name!], wife of the aspiring screenwriter Paul (nicely played by a young Michel Piccoli) merely confirmed what Clouzot's "La Verite" (1960) had already established, viz., that B.B. was a highly talented actress and not merely a lovely sex kitten pimped by ex-husband ...
Dec 18, 2012 · Films & Architecture: "Contempt". In collaboration with Carlo Ponti, Jean-Luc Godard, one of the main representatives of the 60′s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, adapted the Alberto ...
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Between Light & Leaves is a modern mural painted by artist Camille Javal that playfully interacts with the kitchen environment. Gilded shapes traveling up the wall add an unexpected element of surprise and sophistication to the large scale artwork.
