
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekPossibly Godard's most melancholy film and probably his most beautiful ... |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabThe miracle here is that for all its use of irony and self-reflexive devices, Le Mepris still ends up with a considerable emotional punch. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranInevitably a melancholy film, but a memorable one as well. |
| ToxicUniverse.comJeremiah KippScrew Adaptation and its lack of temerity. Contempt is a meta-movie that places the onus back on the viewer. How are we to sensibly respond, and is there any sense in that at all? |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonAn expensive international production, but still one of Godard's most personal and most perverse films. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrWhat's the price of selling out? Contempt asks the question of its characters, its audience, and its own director. |
| Little White LiesWally HammondA knowing, tragic-comic aria for love and moviemaking. |
| Observer (UK)Jonathan RomneySteeped in melancholy and a sense of mourning. |
| The ListEmma SimmondsIf Le Mépris lacks the uninhibited character of, say, Breathless, Pierrot le Fou, or Alphaville it undoubtedly makes up for it in emotional potency. |
| CineVueMartyn ConterioGodard was the artist who tore cinema apart and rebuilt it to suit his own interests and ends. |