adrianawebuhm It is the soundtrack of Georges Delerue that I believe takes Le Mepris up onto another level. Otherwise I can't explain why I'm so moved by simple shots of sculptures. With the music soaring in the air with it, everything is complete with sound meeting visual.Godard and the team should still be given full credit for the choice of this soundtrack that drives the film. Though, Godard has mentioned that this was his highest budget film, and perhaps the one where he had the least power. Nevertheless, what an amazing film! In every film you sometimes have to allow other artists to make their own and its the team work on Contempt that makes it so strong. There's legendary Metropolis director Lang, and it would help for Godard to rub shoulders with such greats. Le Mepris is created like an epic in relationships, the breakdown of relationships. It's not done in a normal way, you have the typical long conversation you'd find in a Godard movie. Similar to what you'd find in Breathless, but less funny this time. It is a much more serious Godard film, which also owes a lot to the exquisite cinematography and the beautiful locations in Capri. A standout scene for me is the montage when the writer and his girlfriend are separated by the producer, who drives away with her in his car. The best moment is when they're all together again and you see an assistant arriving on a bicycle. The way all these pieces come together, is brilliant editing. Bravo to Le Mepris!

osmangokturk for those who would like to feed their intellectual gut and pictures I can strongly recommend. To me this film is about a changing nature of the women and the tiny line that could jeopardize a love,Having watched movies of Godart from this era, he depicts woman like a Dieu. Here again we see that Paul is not able to manage his love against his carrier. This can be a tough question when one have a great love. At the final, he finishes with the horrible thing on the Woman side. we see this in the "vivre Sa Vie". Still I could not understand why he finish like this. I would say because he hates women and take revenge, probably not that simple. An idea that crosses my mind is that because Godard don't want a final like "the goods live haply ever after" or he don't want the viewers to speculate the remaining life of the protagonists, i.e. the story ends here as movie does. a picturesque movie that could let you have good time. I will give 8 over 10.

davikubrick It is quite strange to see Jean-Luc Godard making a movie about the deconstruction of a couple, but "Le Mépris" is with no doubt his best film and one of the best ever made. A screenwriter called Paul Javal receives a proposal to make new scenes for the cinematic adaptation of the book The Odyssey, however, his wife Camille begins to despise the little things he does, then the couple start to breakup. In addition to being visually beautiful and having one of the best movie soundtracks, the performances do not fall short, especially Brigitte Bardot, the film has a cameo from legendary director Fritz Lang (Metropolis and M), was also the first big budget film by Jean-Luc Godard, but that is little noticed in the film. The film creates an analogy between the story of the protagonist of the book The Odyssey with Camille and Paul are going through, the beauty of the images, well, almost everything works on this masterpiece. Cinema should be like life, and "Le Mépris" or Contempt is a tragic but visually beautiful depiction of it.

broken-stairs Before I begin, I feel I should give some of my background: I only studied a little bit movies in school (not that I think that should matter) and I have seen relatively few classics, but I still enjoyed some of them. I also watched the movie with subtitles (I don't know French, German, or Italian). I feel the need to provide others with an opinion that differs from the high rating it has received so far.The movie starts off promising with a few interesting characters, such as Prokosch and Lang, along with the gorgeous Camille and the interesting "movie-in-a-movie" premise (which is less consequential as the movie continues). Without any explanation, Camille takes on the character she will be the remainder of the movie; an enigmatic and flippant wife who misinterprets a transportation hiccup (or correctly interprets her husband's conniving) and inexplicably stops loving him. In fact, the synopsis ought to have a spoiler alert because he only figures that out at the end. Her husband tirelessly (to me, it's past any realistic level tirelessness) tries to get any response out of her. This continues for the whole movie and only slightly differentiates as the movie continues.Lang and Prokosch are not developed much more and become static elements to the story, which I find lazy. The soundtrack is maniacally repetitive and is applied almost disjointedly from the action in the film. To me, it feels like they had only two or three melodies composed and recorded and decided to use them over and over again regularly without much regard for plot. The ending gave me no emotion except for the relief that was over.I'm not sure if this movie is considered "good" (7.8 rating at the time of my writing) because of some social or historical importance or the allegorical references regarding Homer's Odyssey, but those pluses are far too subtle to me. While I find Hollywood movies typically too explanatory, this is same magnitude on the other end of the spectrum. The characters are irrational and one dimensional, which eliminated my empathy for them and the movie became annoying.If annoyance is the point of the movie, then the director succeeded. I think the director, producers, and crew wanted to make this movie their vacation so they could go to some villa by the seaside, drive around in a nice Alfa Romeo, film Bridgitte Barot and other women naked, and flex their cinematography muscles in that conveniently planned apartment. If you look at it that way, this movie may be more enjoyable. This movie could make more sense and be more enjoyable if it were shorter and had a couple more lines in it.