"This is one of the French new wave master's seminal films, a satire on the making of a Hollywood-style movie that exploits Bardot's femme fatale Camille with no less aplomb than Hollywood itself." - Kate Muir, Time (UK)
"Possibly Godard's most melancholy film and probably his most beautiful." - Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
In Godard’s CinemaScope sensation, the marriage between screenwriter Paul (Michel Piccoli) and his wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot, at peak bombshell) disintegrates on the set of a new film directed by “Fritz Lang” (played by Fritz Lang). A seminal film of the French New Wave, which the Chicago Reader’s Jonathan Rosenbaum called “one of the great films of the 1960s,” CONTEMPT celebrates its 60th anniversary with this 4K restoration by Studiocanal at Hiventy, with support from the CNC, from the original 35mm negative, interpositive, and reference print by Raoul Coutard. Film Center exclusive.
Awards & Nominations
Winner - Top 10 Film Award, 1963 - Cahiers du Cinéma