Contempt (Screen 1)

This entry in our French Film Series is in partnership with Alliance Française de Philadelphie and is FREE for both Alliance Members and Members of our non-profit theater.Jean-Luc Godard’s lyrical, piercing critique of the international cinema business is widely considered the French New Wave titan’s most accessible film. This melodrama follows a screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) struggling with rewrites on an American adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’, and unexpectedly finding his marriage to his beautiful wife (Brigitte Bardot) on the rocks. Also featuring Jack Palance and director Fritz Lang in a pivotal role playing himself. In French w/ subtitles.Funding for the French Film Series is made possible by a generous grant courtesy of the Vesta Fund.