Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Blvd
718.956.1819
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Contempt
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Wednesday July 22, 2009 (8:30pm)
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Pre-screening entertainment begins at 7pm; the film starts at sunset.
Jean-Luc Godard's most "commercial" effort, Contempt describes the iconoclast's opinion towards that "school" of filmmaking, as well as the state of union between a for-hire screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his spouse (Brigitte Bardot). There's trouble in paradiso from the start, with Bardot's famous anatomy inspiring a "totally, tenderly, tragically" ado. Making home-matters worse, a cocksure American producer (Jack Palance) proceeds to make bedroom eyes at Bardot after hiring her husband to emend Fritz Lang's art-haus Odyssey. The artistic and marital compromises that arise from this ménage à trois are couched in an epic tone, thanks to classical meditations and the imperial vistas of location-shot Italy.
