"Contempt" (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

Date/Time: 
02/22/2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
International House Philadelphia, The Ibrahim Theater (3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104)
Cost: 
Free to the Public, RSVP

Adaptations Film Series: Contempt

Co-presented by Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, as part of Penn Humanities Forum on Adaptations.

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 filmmaker
(played by legendary director Fritz Lang), 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.

For more information: http://ihousephilly.org/events/adaptations-film-series-contempt/