'Contempt' (Le Mépris)

Country: France, 1963. Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance. ⏱ Runtime: 103 min. 🌐 Language: French. 💬 Subtitles: Hebrew. Jean-Luc Godard's film is one of the peaks of the French New Wave of the 1960s: a poetic and sharp drama about the relationships between art, love and cinema. Michel Piccoli plays a screenwriter caught in a marital crisis while being asked to adapt "The Odyssey" for a Hollywood film in a grandiose production directed by Fritz Lang (playing himself). Brigitte Bardot, then at the peak of her fame, plays Piccoli's wife. Through clashes between creator and studio, between man and woman, between Europe and America, the film explores...