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Le mépris = Contempt / Janus Films ; Studio Canal ; Cocinor ; produced by Georges de Beauregard and Carlo Ponti for Rome-Paris Films, Films Concordia, and Compagnia Cinematografia Champion ; directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
LIBRA DVD 010 947 disc 1-2 ; Program notes
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 171.
- Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
- Criterion collection ; 171
- Classic collection
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Italy--Capri Island--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Screenwriters--Italy--Capri Island--Drama.
- Screenwriters.
- Marriage--Drama.
- Marriage.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Italy--Capri Island.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Drama.
- Adultery--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Motion pictures, Italian.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Romance films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + program notes.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Special édition.
- Other Title:
- Contempt
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2002]
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles; optional English-dubbed soundtrack.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French dramatist and his wife visit the producer's villa in Capri. There the wife and producer engage in an affair, and she decides to leave her husband. However, something quite unexpected happens.
- Participant:
- Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Agnès Guillemot, Issa Clubb (Coutard interview) ; music, Georges Delerue ; camera, André Bonzel (Coutard interview).
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a French motion picture in 1963.
- Based on the novel Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia.
- Special features: audio commentary by film scholar Robert Stam ; two 1963 documentaries by Jacques Rozier from the set Bardot et Godard (8 min.) and Paparazzi (18 min.) ; The dinosaur and the baby (1967), a conversation between Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang (60 min.) ; Encounter with Fritz Lang (1963), a short film by Peter Fleischmann; interview with Raoul Coutard ; excerpt from an interview between François Chalais and Jean-Luc Godard about the film ; theatrical trailer.
- Program notes by Phillip Lopate inserted in container.
- ISBN:
- 0780026179
- OCLC:
- 50800430
- Publisher Number:
- 037429173121
- CON110 Criterion Collection
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