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18 December 1964 (USA)
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Bardot at her bold, bare and brazen best! Reveling in Rome, cavorting in Capri...jolting even the jaded international jet-set in her pursuit of love! [UK Theatrical] more
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Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial,...
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Godard's Contempt
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Brigitte Bardot | ... | Camille Javal |
 | Michel Piccoli | ... | Paul Javal |
 | Jack Palance | ... | Jeremy Prokosch |
| Giorgia Moll | ... | Francesca Vanini |
| Fritz Lang | ... | Himself |
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103 min | Finland:97 min | USA:102 min | Italy:82 min (re-edited version) (cut)
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Australia:PG |
Brazil:16 |
Argentina:16 |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:6 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
West Germany:16 |
UK:AA (original rating)
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Crew or equipment visible: While the camera follows Paul and Camille around their apartment, its shadow can be seen on a nearby wall for a few seconds.
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Camille Javal:
[voice-over] I've noticed the more we doubt, the more we cling to a false lucidity, in hope of rationalizing what feelings have made murky.
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Featured in T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais (1986)
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The whole movie can be captured in one moment. That one fleeting second when the absurd irony and futility of 'everything' will dawn upon you. Either that or you will merely take it for what it is. A masterpiece.
So obviously chained by the wrath of Gods, the movie on the whole has too much to offer. Whether it is the parallels between the existing world and the world of homer, the constant struggle with commercialism or the perusal of a writer's integrity... you will keep on jumping between realism and.... romanticism? Throughout the movie, a haunting melancholic theme continues to play magic on nerves. Amongst countless striking scenes lies a splendidly performed sequence made on a shoestring budget in the apartment that captures the unsettling confessions of the pair. Definitely worth seeing/experiencing!
As much as you will fall under the spell of Godard and feel for the likes of Lang, you can't help being amused by the almost comical character of Palance. Very comical, Very contemptuous.
But at the end its Lang that captures attention on the whole. A lone figure standing amidst harmonious chaos, staring silently at everyone and no one, while life effortlessly moves around him. He makes perfect sense.
Contempt. The whole thing takes place within a system that seems to be contemptuous of itself. So much so that it even ends up holding a mocking mirror, capturing an ultimate contempt for the audience.