CONTEMPT

<p><strong>CONTEMPT </strong></p><p><strong>JEAN-LUC GODARD</strong></p><p><strong>POCKET MOVIE GUIDE</strong></p><p></p><p>By Jeremy Mark Robinson</p><p></p><p>There's no one else quite like Jean-Luc Godard one of the most significant and inspiring filmmakers of recent times. Where the flood of movies globally now runs into many thousands Godard's works stand out as original acerbic romantic ironic controversial humorous and explorative. </p><p>Le Mépris (a.k.a. Contempt a.k.a. A Ghost At Noon 1963) was one of Jean-Luc Godard's films about films in particular the contemporary Hollywood film industry.</p><p>Contempt was an international production: it was filmed in French (with parts in English Italian and German) set (and filmed) in Italy produced by an Italian (Carlo Ponti) a Frenchman (Georges de Beauregard) and an American (Joe Levine) based on a novel by an Italian writer (Alberto Moravia's Il Disprezzo [A Ghost At Noon]) and starred an American (Jack Palance as U.S. film producer Jerry Prokosch) a German (Fritz Lang as himself a German filmmaker in exile 72 at the time of making Contempt) and two French actors (Brigitte Bardot as Camille Javal a 28 year-old French typist and Michel Piccoli as her husband Paul Javal a playwright). Camille Javal is Bardot's real name. </p><p>Contempt is also a movie about movies a movie about art and communication and exile and Europe and capitalism and despair and - of course - death. Contempt is a commentary upon the possibility of one day perhaps thinking about making a movie on subjects which might include love marriage betrayal integrity loyalty desire and power.</p><p></p><p>Fully illustrated. Bibliography filmography Godardisms and notes.</p><p></p><p></p>