Contempt (1963)
- 7.6
- 1h 42min
- Romance, Drama
- 1964-12-18 (USA)
Storyline
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.
Plot Keywords
femme fatale, satire, filmmaking, bare chested male, apartment, female rear nudity, film producer, screenwriter, based on novel, film within a film, gun, blonde, american abroad, frenchman abroad, self referential, dysfunctional marriage, car accident, melodrama, nazism, reference to joseph goebbels
Short Review
"Contempt" transports us back to another era: an early '60s world in which the classicism of the past...is juxtaposed with the emptiness and ennui of modern culture.
Trailer
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