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. Le Mepris [1963]
starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Langdirected by: Jean-Luc Godard
Release Date November 10, 1997
The other reviews appear blind to the fact that this is one of Godard's first forays into political metaphor.
The film sets a playwright with an interest in art for art's sake against an American 'movie' maker who ends up stealing his wife. Effectively, the woman caught between them represents European society - I believe. She is shamed by the behaviour of her husband who she feels allowed the US movie-maker to have an opportunity to take advantage of her for personal gain. In the end she leaves him for the American who she otherwise dispises because of that shame and in spite of it.
The movie which is set in Italy, I believe, is a metaphor for Godard's disgust at what some would call the 'revisionism' of mainstream ... Read More:
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