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Widely acknowledged as a classic, LE MEPRIS is the story of Paul, a writer, and Camille, a couple in a tempestuous marriage. When Paul accepts a job to review a big screen version of Homer's Odyssey, the arguments over how the script should turn out mirror the arguments in Paul's relationship. Read more

Starring	Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli
Director	Jean-Luc Godard
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- A film about - among other things - integrity. The basic situation, faithfully adapted from Moravia's novel A Ghost... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
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- - 11
  - 4
  Non-vintage Goddard
  
  This film may not be up to vintage Godard from the French new Wave, but it is still a fine example of 60s cinema. The quality of the print and extras are great ... read more »
  
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  - Graham Taylor
  - Stratford-upon-Avon
  - 22 Feb 2004 at 12:24
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- - 0
  - 1
  A tragic story in a fabulous setting
  
  Stunningly shot in Roma, at Cinecitta Studios and on location in Capri, this is the greatest film about international filmmaking and one of the finest films of ... read more »
  
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- 1066764
- - HH66
  - 6 reviews
  - 24 Nov 2011 at 21:33
- - 1
  - 1
  Beautiful Enigma
  
  This film is truly beautiful and imaginative in imagery and in photography ... and one has Bardot as well! She will never be surpassed as she was then. As very ... read more »
  
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- 978130
- - Nigel Wilson
  - Helmsley, North Riding of Yorkshire
  - 01 Apr 2011 at 12:57
- - 0
  - 3
  Best film in the world
  
  A good candidate for best film ever.
  
  Its very beautiful to watch.
  
  It puts film under the microscope, showing how all the Hollywood crap is... read more »
  
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- 974478
- - anothergreen
  - 6 reviews
  - Winkfield, Berkshire
  - 19 Mar 2011 at 20:32
- - 1
  - 0
  Navel-gazing, Godard style
  
  A quizzical exercise, this, parts of it a jab at crass Hollywood movie-making (probably the least convincing part to the film), others a bruising account of a ... read more »
  
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- - RJNeb2
  - 752 reviews
  - London
  - 14 Oct 2010 at 00:59
- - 2
  - 0
  Slow story filled with great dialogue
  
  That review title sums up what I generally think of Godard. In this case, the story is about a writer struggling to keep his wife. The dialogue is a constant ... read more »
  
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- - brokenking
  - 214 reviews
  - Bristol
  - 09 Apr 2010 at 17:19
- - 1
  - 1
  moral tale
  
  Beautiful art film in modern classic style.
  
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- - a customer
  - London
  - 21 Jan 2009 at 22:26
- - 3
  - 0
  Le Mepris
  
  This film is decidedly underwhelming. It is little wonder to me that the film was subject to so much interference. Although the premise is in itself intruiging... read more »
  
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- - MikeyMook
  - 4 reviews
  - Dundee
  - 10 Sep 2008 at 14:29
- - 2
  - 0
  Customer Review
  
  "Le Mepris" is another superb Godard movie. It tells the story of the marital difficulties of a scriptwriter (Piccoli) and his typist wife (Bardot) as... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
- - 1
  - 0
  Over paid, over sexed and over here!
  
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  Godards simplistic view of how Hollywood was beginning to dominate the European cinema scene through its 'cheque book', as personified by Jack Palance ... read more »
  
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- - JCPHankins
  - 57 reviews
  - London
  - 28 May 2008 at 09:35
- - 2
  - 0
  Some disappointment
  
  I found this film strangely dated. The action was stagey and the dialogue stilted with all the vitality of somebody reading a laundry list, not what one ... read more »
  
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  - Hereford
  - 17 Aug 2007 at 18:22
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- - 11
  - 4
  Non-vintage Goddard
  
  This film may not be up to vintage Godard from the French new Wave, but it is still a fine example of 60s cinema. The quality of the print and extras are great ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 2336
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Graham Taylor
  - Stratford-upon-Avon
  - 22 Feb 2004 at 12:24
- - 9
  - 5
  Pretentious - Moi?
  
  To think my generation took this sort of thing so seriously back then, sitting reverentially in the Arts Cinema, nodding sagely at every apparent profundity in ... read more »
  
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  - FrankIV
  - 393 reviews
  - Cirencester, England
  - 27 Jan 2005 at 16:50
- - 8
  - 3
  Lets set the record straight
  
  This film is a masterpiece. The only problem is that it does not easily yield up its delights and a bit of an effort is required by the viewer. The first ... read more »
  
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- 139008
- - Zamy
  - 546 reviews
  - London
  - 11 Aug 2005 at 15:10
- - 6
  - 1
  Not quite the genuine article, this...
  
  Lovers of French cinema and admirers of B.B. and Godard are likely to find this second-rate stuff. It just doesn't quite work. B.B. smooches in her sultry ... read more »
  
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- - Clerico
  - 84 reviews
  - Dunbar
  - 31 Jan 2005 at 10:49
- - 4
  - 0
  I agree with everyone ...
  
  I agree with everyone else. If you are a new-wave fan, be aware that this is all rather bourgeoisie and nice, and the plot is based around moaning and ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Brighton
  - 08 Jul 2007 at 07:21
- - 4
  - 1
  Uninvolving
  
  The dvd allows you to select the French language version, with English subtitles if you want them.This is much better than the dubbed-English version, which for... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Cheltenham, England
  - 14 Feb 2005 at 14:25
- - 5
  - 4
  I do not have contempt for this, but...
  
  I had not realized that this was a Godard film when I watched it. The overblown portrait of a producer and a film writer who never takes his hat off might have ... read more »
  
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- - Apsley
  - Royston
  - 18 Jun 2005 at 23:43
- - 3
  - 0
  Le Mepris
  
  This film is decidedly underwhelming. It is little wonder to me that the film was subject to so much interference. Although the premise is in itself intruiging... read more »
  
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- 627204
- - MikeyMook
  - 4 reviews
  - Dundee
  - 10 Sep 2008 at 14:29
- - 3
  - 2
  The beautiful Italian ...
  
  The beautiful Italian landscape, Bridget Bardot, Jean Luc Goddard- how could it not be a classic. Stands up well even all these years later, although some parts... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - SCUNTHORPE
  - 23 May 2004 at 12:41
- - 3
  - 2
  the music the music
  
  There is a piece of music used in this film repeatedly over and over again. I t is a piece of music so enthralling that Scorsese used it for the end titles of ... read more »
  
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- 151516
- - peter conway
  - Walsall England
  - 16 Sep 2005 at 20:53

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  Widely acknowledged as a classic, LE MEPRIS is the story of Paul, a writer, and Camille, a couple in a tempestuous marriage. When Paul accepts a job to review a big screen version of Homer's Odyssey, the arguments over how the script should turn out mirror the arguments in Paul's relationship....

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  Widely acknowledged as a classic, LE MEPRIS is the story of Paul, a writer, and Camille, a couple in a tempestuous marriage. When Paul accepts a job to review a big screen version of Homer's Odyssey, the arguments over how the script should turn out mirror the arguments in Paul's relationship....