Video: title sequence
Title sequence is narrated by Godard
“Fin”
1963
Le mépris
Contempt
- Directed by:
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Starring:
- Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang
- Country:
- France, Italy
- Title design:
- Jean-Luc Godard








“It’s based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.
It features Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli.
Jack Palance and Giorgia Moll, too.
And Fritz Lang.
Raoul Coutard did the photography.
Georges Delerue wrote the score.
The sound was recorded by William Sivel.
Agnes Guillemot did the editing.
Philippe Dussart and Carlo Lastricati were unit managers.
It’s a film by Jean-Luc Godard.
It was shot in CinemaScope and printed in color by GTC Labs.
Georges de Beauregard and Carlo Ponti produced it for Rome-Paris Films, Films Concordia and Compagnia Cinematografia Champion.
“The cinema, “said Andre Bazin, “substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. ” Contempt is a story of that world.”
