Join us for the 60th Anniverary of Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 masterpiece Contempt.
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (playing himself) 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.
Dancing a firm tightrope between heightened and metatextual, Contempt is one of Godard's defining classics, and an essential work of the French New Wave.
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