Things haven't been particularly pretentious around for a while, so I gotta go Godard. Le Mepris was the product of Godard's producer, seeing that Brigitte Barford was becoming close friends with him and that would be his best chance to make some money for once, since she was the most famous woman in the world at the time. In a way it worked- it was also Godard's most successful film upon release.
But this not only has to do with Bardot, it's Godard's best photographed film but it's still pretty aimless in story and narrative. No bad thing but you need to be a cinematic icon to land that sort of thing.
The crux of the piece is that this Hollywood producer wants this writer to draft him a movie version of The Odyssey and it makes his wife (Bardot) treat him with Le Mepris (trans.- CONTEMPT!)
Godard must love listening to people converse more than any other filmmaker. His films are 90% that.
What was strange for me while watching this movie was I had, unconsciously, turned on the English version of the film as well as the English subtitles (I watch most films at home with subtitles given the choice) but after 5mins of watching the film, i realised that the subtitles were not matching up with what was being said on screen...
Then I started thinking 'Ohhh. Godard is subverting the use of subtitles to use as a tool for showing what these characters are thinking as opposed to what they are thinking. *Referential clap* I look forward to the extras where this practice is explained...'
And after the film has finished and i'm navigating through the extras, there's nothing regarding the subtitles. I check Wikipedia-nothing. Relevant BluRay Review-nothings. Which makes it even more curious...
I watched Les Mepris (1964) on BluRay, via LoveFilm.
My 2011 in Movies will return with Violent Cop (1989)...
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