Jean-Luc Godard's subversive entry into the commercial film world is a colorful, penetrating study of real rupture and the filmmaking process.

Jean-Luc Godard’s Le mépris stars Michel Piccoli (La Grande Bouffe, Belle de Jour) as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by the legendary director Fritz Lang), a rough and arrogant American producer (Jack Palance), and his disillusioned wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), as he attempts to adapt the script for a new film version of The Odyssey. 

Le mépris unfolds as a philosophical meditation on the terrible power of art and beauty. Framed by expansive Mediterranean vistas, Georges Delerue’s haunting score, and Brigitte Bardot’s captivating presence, this 1963 cinematic odyssey seduces the eye even as it quietly unsettles the viewer’s inner world.