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7.0Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
Cast
- Brigitte Bardot as Camille Javal
- Michel Piccoli as Paul Javal
- Jack Palance as Jeremy Prokosch
- Giorgia Moll as Francesca Vanini
- Fritz Lang as Fritz Lang
- Raoul Coutard as Cameraman
Themes
- jealousy
- based on novel or book
- villa
- love triangle
- italy
- movie business
- capri
- screenwriter
- car crash
- divorce
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Ratings
IMDb
7.4/10
37,823 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
- Year
- 1963
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- French
- Le Mépris
- Directed by
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Screenplay by
- Jean-Luc Godard, (uncredited)
- Based on
- Il disprezzo , 1954 novel, by Alberto Moravia
- Produced by
- Georges de Beauregard Carlo Ponti Uncredited: Joseph E. Levine
- Starring
- Brigitte Bardot Jack Palance Michel Piccoli Giorgia Moll Fritz Lang
- Cinematography
- Raoul Coutard
- Edited by
- Agnès Guillemot
- Music by
- Georges Delerue (France/US) Piero Piccioni (Italy/Spain)
- Production companies
- Rome Paris Films Les Films Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
- Distributed by
- Marceau-Cocinor (France) Interfilm (Italy)
- Release dates
- 29 October 1963 ( 1963-10-29 ) (Italy) 20 December 1963 ( 1963-12-20 ) (France)
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Countries
- France Italy
- Languages
- French English German Italian
- Budget
- $1 million
- Box office
- 1,597,870 admissions (France)
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 102
- FilmAffinity ID
- 863642
- Image
- Le Mépris.png
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- publication date
- 1963-10-29
- title
- Le Mépris
- review score
- 92%
- Commons category
- Le Mépris
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Contempt (French: Le Mépris) is a 1963 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on Alberto Moravia's 1954 novel Il disprezzo. It follows a playwright, Paul Javal, whose marriage begins to fall apart during the troubled production of a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. The film stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, and Giorgia Moll.
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