1963 / 102 minutes / French with subtitles / Color
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Print supplied by: Rialto Pictures

Thursday, August 27th, 2015
9:30pm
at North Park Theatre

Please join us for a one-night special screening event of the 50th anniversary restoration of Jean-Luc Godard’s masterpiece Contempt [1963].

Summer 2015 Season Sponsor: Community Beer Works
Event Sponsors: Buffalo Pug & Small Breed Rescue, Perk’s Cafe and Market & Més Que
Ticket Information: $10.50 online; $9.50 at the door

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Synopsis courtesy of The Criterion Collection:

Jean-Luc Godard’s subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. Contempt [Le Mépris] stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang), a crude and arrogant American producer (Jack Palance), and his disillusioned wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The Odyssey. Contempt is a brilliant study of marital breakdown, artistic compromise, and the cinematic process based on Italian novel A Ghost at Noon by Alberto Moravia.