Brigitte Bardot reminds us what all the fuss was approximately,alongside Jack Palance and Michel Piccoli, in this restored version of Godard’s 1963 classicI first saw Le Mépris many years ago in a print so faded that everything was pale pink; it felt like gazing at an artefact from an immeasurably distant past. Watching the film now, and with its reds and Mediterranean blues restored to their full intensity,the film is still redolent of a lost antiquity, not least because Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 feature is so steeped in melancholy and a sense of mourning. Related: Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com