Contempt (film)

Contempt
Contempt
	French theatrical release poster
French	Le Mépris
Directed by	Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay by	Jean-Luc Godard; (uncredited)
Based on	Il disprezzo; 1954 novel; by Alberto Moravia
Produced by	Georges de Beauregard; Carlo Ponti; Uncredited:; Joseph E. Levine;
Starring	Brigitte Bardot; Jack Palance; Michel Piccoli; Giorgia Moll; Fritz Lang;
Cinematography	Raoul Coutard
Edited by	Agnès Guillemot
Music by	Georges Delerue (France/US); Piero Piccioni (Italy/Spain);
Production; companies	Rome Paris Films; Les Films Concordia; Compagnia Cinematografica Champion;
Distributed by	Marceau-Cocinor (France); Interfilm (Italy);
Release dates	29 October 1963 (Italy); 20 December 1963 (France);
Running time	101 minutes
Countries	France; Italy;
Languages	French; English; German; Italian;
Budget	$1 million
Box office	1,597,870 admissions (France)

Contempt (French: Le Mépris) is a 1963 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the 1954 Italian novel Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon) by Alberto Moravia.^[6] It stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, and Giorgia Moll.

^ "Contempt (AA)". British Board of Film Classification. 20 April 1971. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
^ Moviedrome – Le Mépris (Alex Cox) on YouTube
^ Archer, Eugene (27 September 1964). "France's Far Out Filmmaker". The New York Times. p. X11.
^ "Very little left for production". Variety. 14 August 1963. p. 5.
^ Le Mépris, box office information by Renaud Soyer, BoxOfficeStory.com (in French)
^ Moravia, Albert (1954). Il disprezzo [A Ghost at Noon]. OCLC 360548.

Contempt
French theatrical release poster

French	Le Mépris

Directed by	Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay by	Jean-Luc Godard (uncredited)
Based on	Il disprezzo 1954 novel by Alberto Moravia
Produced by	Georges de Beauregard Carlo Ponti Uncredited: Joseph E. Levine
Starring	Brigitte Bardot Jack Palance Michel Piccoli Giorgia Moll Fritz Lang
Cinematography	Raoul Coutard
Edited by	Agnès Guillemot
Music by	Georges Delerue (France/US) Piero Piccioni (Italy/Spain)
Production companies	Rome Paris Films Les Films Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
Distributed by	Marceau-Cocinor (France) Interfilm (Italy)
Release dates	29 October 1963 (1963-10-29) (Italy) 20 December 1963 (1963-12-20) (France)
Running time	101 minutes^[1]
Countries	France Italy
Languages	French English German Italian
Budget	$1 million^[2]^[3]^[4]
Box office	1,597,870 admissions (France)^[5]