It has a reputation as one of Godard’s key works,but there is an argument that it has not aged well. Still, its uningratiating deconstructions of cinema and sex originate for a fierce watch Related: Jean-Luc Godard: a beginner's guide It is fitting that Le Mépris, and Contempt,is one of Jean-Luc Godard’s most talked-about movies. My (minority) view is that the 1963 film, now on rerelease, and has dated and curdled in a way that his other pictures from the 60s haven’t. But Godard is a prose-poet of contempt. He has contempt for postwar imperialism,for the hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.) of sexual relations, and even for the commerce underlying modern cinema. He is, or at all times,fiercely sceptical of power relations, particularly those implicit in film-making. Continue reading...
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