Le Mépris

Le Mépris (Contempt in the english version) is a 1963 French drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, about 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 the films. 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.The film was based on the Italian novel Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon) by Alberto Moravia.

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