In a career spanning decades, Jean-Luc Godard has proved himself to be among the greatest of all French filmmakers. Even in his very earliest work, he formed many masterpieces, and among the greatest of these masterpieces is the 1963 film about film, "Contempt".Part black comedy,part meta-satire, part tense psychological drama, and part romantic tragedy, "Contempt" is a cinematic sea of often haunting emotion. Mixing the witty and comic with the downright painful, this is a masterful study of the collapsing of a marriage set against the backdrop of a satirical study of the chaotic process of movie making (in a similar vein to "8 1/2").Godard's cinema is that of a radical style. While this is among his most toned down and straightforward films, it is still a work of often avant garde brilliance, one dipped in some of Godard's most amusing dialogue and attractive scenery. The character face pitiful and tense melodrama behind the masterwork's poignant score. Luscious views of oceans and gorgeous beach like landscapes are shot with the same epic quality as screening rooms and apartment buildings. Through Godard's sometimes twisted lens, a hellish odyssey is made surreal and powerful more so than it would be in the hands of almost any other filmmaker.Any strong fans of Godard will likely love this film as I did, while more average moviegoers certainly have the potential to find a gemstone of art as long as they have the patience.

The Plot.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.This genre of self absorbed film-making went out of style 40 years ago. And it shows. It's very dated.The Technicolor and CinemaScope are cool but the movie is not engaging. And the music drags.BUT...there's Bridgette Bardot's ass. OMG. Perfection a la mode. What happened to her? She turned to dogs for love and turned into a fat old hag.

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.

Director Fritz Lang (himself) is filming the Odyssey. Sleazy American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) is angry at Lang's overly artistic vision and hires writer Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) to rework the script. The playboy Prokosch takes Paul's wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot) on a ride. Paul and Camille struggle with their troubled relationship.Jack Palance plays the most interesting character. I like the first act as he gets in between the couple and even the constant translation. I'm less interested in the fighting couple. It's a stylized breakdown of a marriage and not really my taste. It might be all kinds of hidden artistic fun being had but all I got is Bardot's bare bottom. The style keeps the couple at a distance. I never really got involved in their troubles.