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Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. But because he let his wife Camille drive with Prokosch and he is late, she believes, he uses her as a sort of present for Prokosch to get get a better payment. So the relationship ends. Written by Stephan Eichenberg <[email protected]>
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femme fatale | filmmaking | satire | estranged couple | bare chested male |Taglines:
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] See more »Genres:
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Release Date:
29 October 1963 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
O Desprezo See more »Box Office
Budget:
$900,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$33,284 (USA) (27 June 1997)Gross:
$40,575 (USA) (17 January 2014)Company Credits
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Jerry Prokosch: You've cheated me, Fritz. That's not what is in that script.
Fritz Lang: It is!
[he pulls the script away from Jerry, who is attempting to grab it out of his hand]
Fritz Lang: Oh, no!
Jerry Prokosch: Get the script, Francesca.
[he reads the script and then changes his tone]
Jerry Prokosch: Yes, it's in the script. But it's not what you have on that screen.
Fritz Lang: Naturally, because in the script it is written, and on the screen it's pictures. Motion picture, it's called.
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(French Version) Written and Performed by Georges Delerue Et Son Orchestre
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The argument which takes place between Michel Piccoli and his wife Brigitte Bardot lasts for 34 minutes. See more »Goofs
It is possible that all "mistakes" in the film that involve visible equipment are intentional, or at least intentionally uncorrected: the film, after all, is about the artificiality of making a film, and the initial credit sequence shows filmmakers shooting the film itself. See more »Quotes
[after viewing film shot by Fritz Lang]Jerry Prokosch: You've cheated me, Fritz. That's not what is in that script.
Fritz Lang: It is!
[he pulls the script away from Jerry, who is attempting to grab it out of his hand]
Fritz Lang: Oh, no!
Jerry Prokosch: Get the script, Francesca.
[he reads the script and then changes his tone]
Jerry Prokosch: Yes, it's in the script. But it's not what you have on that screen.
Fritz Lang: Naturally, because in the script it is written, and on the screen it's pictures. Motion picture, it's called.
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Crazy Credits
The opening cast credits are read, without titles See more »Soundtracks
La Rupture Chez Prokosch(French Version) Written and Performed by Georges Delerue Et Son Orchestre
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French cult-director Jean-Luc Godard made this masterpiece way in 1963 but it is still as captivating as it was then.
Featuring then superstar Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli as her husband- screenwriter who is hired to write a screenplay based on the ancient Greek myth `The Oddysey'. The story deals with the creative process of filmmaking as viewed by Godard, but also focuses on the breakdown of a mariage by the growing contempt of Bardot for her husband , whom she feels is selling out to greedy US producer Jack Palance.
This is a superb movie, not only for the frequent nude shots of Bardot (don't miss the beginning) but also for the beautiful sundrenched photography by Raoul Coutard, appearing as himself during the spoken(!) opening credits, the brilliant lyrical soundtrack by Georges Delerue and the inclusion of legendary german director Fritz Lang (wearing a monocle!) as an almost godlike figure. It all contributes to the poetic and spellbounding atmosphere.
Godard, who briefly appears as the assistant-director to Lang, made this when he was at the peak of his craft and it is among one of his biggest commercial and artistic successes. He was one of the most prolific 'auteurs' of the Nouvelle-Vague ( others being Francois Truffaut and Jacques Rivette) but his career petered out by the end of the sixties.
He still is active though, occasionally turning out mildly interesting movies. By the way, in the Vittorio de Sica comedy `After the Fox' (1966), Peter Sellers delivers a great parody number based on the Godard figure.
Brigitte Bardot was then also at the height of her popularity, reaching sometimes hysterical proportions. The filming was frequently interrupted and even delayed considerably by the intrusions of the Italian paparazzi. Incidentally, in the same year when Contempt was released she also appeared as herself in the US comedy `Dear Brigitte', where a schoolboy is completely smitten with her and desperately tries to get a date. His dad is played by James Stewart !
Try to see it in letterbox format, which gives full credit to the excellent use of the Cinemascope format.
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