Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/29/1963(Italy),
Release Date: 12/10/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: French/English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Criterion
Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille (
Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with her husband Paul (
Michel Piccoli) while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch (
Jack Palance). Just as the director of Prokosch's film,
Fritz Lang, says that The Odyssey is the story of individuals confronting their situations in a real world,
Le Mépris itself is an examination of the position of the filmmaker in the commercial cinema.
Godard himself was facing this situation in the production of
Le Mépris. Italian producer
Carlo Ponti had given him the biggest budget of his career, and he found himself working with a star of
Bardot's magnitude for the first time.
~ Louis Schwartz, All Movie Guide