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Contempt (Le Mépris) (1963)

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · Cinematography by Raoul Coutard

102 min55 frames

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More bold! More brazen! And much, much more Bardot!

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What is Contempt (Le Mépris) about?

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

Contempt is a 1963 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on Alberto Moravia's 1954 novel Il disprezzo. It follows a playwright, Paul Javal, whose marriage begins to fall apart during the troubled production of a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. The film stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, and Giorgia Moll.

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What does the cinematography of Contempt (Le Mépris) look like?

Sampled across 55 frames, the coverage of Contempt (Le Mépris) leans on medium shots (38% of the sample) and wide compositions (31%). Cinematographer Raoul Coutard keeps 62% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 87% of the frames play in daylight. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 56% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1960s.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Contempt (Le Mépris) (1963) are #d5d1cc, #31302f, #f6f6f3, #54554f, #d1cab3, #897b6e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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