Contempt

MOVIE #2,247 • SCORE 9/10 • 12.27.24
SERIES: JEAN-LUC GODARD DIRECTOR FOCUS

Contempt, better known by its American title "Brigitte Bardot's Bare Ass," is the polarizing sixth French New Wave entry from the master Godard that (predictably) befuddled some of the normcore critics (Ebert: "[it] is not one of the great Godard films, for reasons it makes clear" {???}) and wowed some of the cooler ones (Rosenbaum: "Masterpiece... every bit as transgressive now as it was when it first appeared, and maybe more so").

It's influence can be seen far and wide...

Squid Game, 2021 / Contempt, 1963

This is one I feel like I need to rewatch to truly get. Look, it's the holidays and I'm struggling to wrap things up so I'm just gonna leave it at that for now.

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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 the 1954 Italian novel Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon) by Alberto Moravia. It stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, and Giorgia Moll. It was released on October 29, 1963.