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Le mépris : Contempt /

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On Capri, an Italian crew makes a German film of Homer's Odyssey; Fritz Lang directs with American money. Prokosch, the producer, with his sneer and his red Alfa Romeo, holds art films in contempt and hires writer Javal to help Lang commercialize the picture. Against this backdrop, Javal's...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Mépris (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Rome Paris Films, Films Concordia (Paris, France), Compagnia Cinematografia Champion, Lionsgate (Firm)
Other Authors: Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-, Bardot, Brigitte, Piccoli, Michel, 1925-2020, Palance, Jack, 1919-2006, Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976, Coutard, Raoul, Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992, Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:French
English
Spanish
Language Notes:In French, English and Spanish ; subtitles: English, Spanish ; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Published: Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, 2010.
Series:StudioCanal collection.
Subjects:
Man-woman relationships > Italy > Capri Island > Drama.
Screenwriters > Italy > Drama.
Motion picture industry > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Motion pictures, French.
Foreign films.
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Summary:On Capri, an Italian crew makes a German film of Homer's Odyssey; Fritz Lang directs with American money. Prokosch, the producer, with his sneer and his red Alfa Romeo, holds art films in contempt and hires writer Javal to help Lang commercialize the picture. Against this backdrop, Javal's marriage to Camille, a young former typist, disintegrates. It opens with the couple talking in bed, she asking assurance that he finds her attractive. Later that day he introduces her to Prokosch, and, unawares, blunders unforgivably. The rest of the film portrays her, in their apartment and in public, expressing her hurt and change of heart and his slow grasp of the source of her contempt.
Item Description:Requires a blu-ray optical disc player and a HD TV.
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Based on the novel Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia.
Special features: introduction by Colin MacCabe, Gordard expert ; "Once Upon a Timer There Was...Contempt": Documentary on the film ; "Contempt...Tenderly": Documentary on the film ; conversation with Fritz Lang ; "The Dinosaur and the Baby": Discussion between directors Jean-Luck Godard and Fritz Lang ; trailer.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet.
Format:Blu-ray ; 1080P High definition ; Dolby digital ; DTS-HD dual mono ; widescreen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio); requires a blu-ray optical disc player and a HD TV.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Cinematography, Raoul Coutard; editor, Agnès Guillemot; music, Georges Delerue.