Contempt (1964)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:32
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: This powerful work of essential cinema joins "meta" with "physique," casting Brigite Bardot and director Godard's inspiration Fritz Lang.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard's cynical look at the art of filmmaking follows a screenwriter in his attempts to recount Homer's THE ODYSSEY. Full of insights into the compromises required of filmmakers, as well... [More]
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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What's the price of selling out? Contempt asks the question of its characters, its audience, and its own director. Full Review |
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Godard has finally dared to get serious, achieving not mock pathos but a perfect tragedy. Full Review |
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It's talky and filled with broken rhythms and a running stream of thoughts, and is boldly told in exaggerated stylized terms. Full Review |
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An expensive international production, but still one of Godard's most personal and most perverse films. Full Review |
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Godard sets interesting scenes, with provocative color combinations and a suggestive pictorial flow. But out of it all comes nothing -- or very little that tells you why this wife is so contemptuous of her husband. Maybe he should be contemptuous of her! Full Review |
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Screw Adaptation and its lack of temerity. Contempt is a meta-movie that places the onus back on the viewer. How are we to sensibly respond, and is there any sense in that at all? Full Review |
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While Contempt is seen by many as Godard’s most "commercial" or "mainstream" film, it is also one of his most emotionally stirring and deeply felt. Full Review |
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A superlative film about many things, including the making of a film, the break-up of a married couple, and the parallels between the contemporary New Wave world (of 1963) and the classical (Old Wave) world of Homer. Full Review |
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A powerful, uncomfortable and essential work. Full Review |
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