Contempt (film)

Contempt
French theatrical release poster
FrenchLe Mépris
Directed byJean-Luc Godard
Screenplay byJean-Luc Godard
(uncredited)
Based onIl disprezzo
1954 novel
by Alberto Moravia
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRaoul Coutard
Edited byAgnès Guillemot
Music by
Production
companies
  • Rome Paris Films
  • Les Films Concordia
  • Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 29 October 1963 (1963-10-29) (Italy)
  • 20 December 1963 (1963-12-20) (France)
Running time
101 minutes[1]
Countries
  • France
  • Italy
Languages
  • French
  • English
  • German
  • Italian
Budget$1 million[2][3][4]
Box office1,597,870 admissions (France)[5]

Contempt (French: Le Mépris) is a 1963 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the 1954 Italian novel Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon) by Alberto Moravia.[6] It stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, and Giorgia Moll.

  1. ^ "Contempt (AA)". British Board of Film Classification. 20 April 1971. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. ^ Moviedrome – Le Mépris (Alex Cox) on YouTube
  3. ^ Archer, Eugene (27 September 1964). "France's Far Out Filmmaker". The New York Times. p. X11.
  4. ^ "Very little left for production". Variety. 14 August 1963. p. 5.
  5. ^ Le Mépris, box office information by Renaud Soyer, BoxOfficeStory.com (in French)
  6. ^ Moravia, Albert (1954). Il disprezzo [A Ghost at Noon]. OCLC 360548.

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