Le Mépris stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter who attempts to edit the script for a new film version of The Odyssey. He finds himself torn between the demands of his disillusioned wife (Brigitte Bardot), a proud European director (Fritz Lang) and a crude and arrogant American producer (Jack Palance).
Godard’s dissident entry into the world of highly commercial films is a refined, immersive epic; a penetrating study of marital discord, artistic compromises, and the filmmaking process, featuring an unforgettable soundtrack by the award-winning composer Georges Delerue.
De Balie is screening this beloved French New Wave gem in a freshly restored 4K version, that premiered at Cannes Classics last year.
The film is based on the book Il disprezzo (Contempt) by Alberto Moravia.
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Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this free-form and juicy homage to American film genres that he prized during his time as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma, the eminent French film magazine. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, yes-to-all crime narrative, and radiant young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeois world behind. This is, however, no ordinary road trip: the tenth feature in six years by the renowned filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire, au courant
Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution is a quirky blend of science fiction, pulp fiction characters, and surrealist poetry, making it one of the most unconventional films ever made. In Alphaville Godard makes another bold attempt at mixing genres, this time merging dystopian science fiction with film noir. Instead of using elaborate props or
