Critics' Picks - 'Contempt' | The New York Times

[@robertmatheus8004]

"I hate you because you're incapable of moving me" best line of the film.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

one of my 12 all time favorite films. That last long shot of the Mediterranean is simply stunning.

[@BickBenedict1]

I truly love this movie.

[@smurfette_blues7922]

god i love this movie

[@ashamazon2262]

Reminds me of Elliot Smith's Figure 8. The romance and futility of music.

[@713davidh42]

For me Georges Delerue's music score is what makes this a quality film.

[@redpenink12]

This now has a 4k release!

[@ricardocima]

An odd beaultiful film. Odd because usually Godard's masterpieces are very funny, but in this one he seems dead serious.

[@seand4033]

Actually, the movie-based on Moravia's novel-demonstrates that once one violates one's own ethical code, choosing upward mobility over one's actual values (in this case, one's wife)-one loses everything in the process. It is a MORALITY play. Not some nihilistic garbage about the futility of anything. Godard does not often speak in exacting terms about anything. You have to actually watch the thing to derive the meaning. And there is meaning. And it is beautiful. Just as it was with Alphaville-a swan song to heroic, rugged individualism.

[@dimitrikorsakov2570]

The action as you describe it is right, but him ceding his wife to the producer is regarded as a failure of his masculinity (as his wife tells him in the film), not his morality.

[@seand4033]

@@dimitrikorsakov2570 I don't think that you are using proper definitions of words, as they are understood in the English language. Morality is concerned with one's thoughts and actions as it pertains to achieving "the good" (that which makes life possible and lived well-the Good or Great Life), in accordance with man's nature. As Man is a volitional animal, and uses his mind to make decisions-freely-his masculinity or rather, his accumulation of values associated with this concept, is under much of his control. Masculinity is a virtue as much as it is an adjective. Therefore, the moral failing is in not living up to various virtues and values which we associate with masculinity but are in fact universal to men, and many women too. The heroic man is the ideal, or was the ideal, until the woke momos destroyed it. This is why our contemporary masters HATE Russia. The Ros / Rus are the Vikings-and carry with them, their spirit of heroic masculinity. And all these ideas-which are Aristotelian in nature, have been filtered through the greatest Russian of all time-Randy Ayn of House Atlas. :) lol

[@cadicamo8720]

​@@seand4033"That's why our contemporary masters hAtE poor RuZZia"🤡

[@landcruiserfan4206]

@@seand4033 this is such a dreadful take hahahah. The lack of awareness is staggering

[@seand4033]

I'm aware of Marxist Nihilist Woketopians. I just don't like them@@landcruiserfan4206

[@sandygiannascoli]

I love it.

[@nyccheckin]

J'adore.

[@Projeckt]

Love this movie!!

[@sebastianpedone1361]

jajaja como vas a tener mix filings (sic) con GODARD? el mas grande de siempre!

[@dobgood]

I've seen "Contempt" several times and still can't figure it out. It is undeniably compelling--riveting even--but what exactly is it about? Why must Camille die? Why does Paul, who claims to love her "totally ... tragically," respond to her death with apparent relief, just a day after stalking her with a revolver in a fit of jealous rage? What in her death does he find cathartic? I know people in real life are frequently irrational, but Paul's contradictory motivations are just too opaque for me. I may be wrong, but I think a lot of this film's reputation rests on its cinematography and the rhythm of its editing, but most of all to Delerue's score. Surely, the viewer thinks, the action accompanied by a score this beautiful and majestic must be great, too.

[@seand4033]

See my comments above. The film is about the VALUE of LOVE / Connection with another person and how that can be easily destroyed by seeking the wrong values-fame, power, money for its own sake, etc. Paul loses his top value by seeking lesser values, and treating the top value like so much garbage. It is a deconstruction of what it means to be a man, by showing you its opposite. In other words-the film is a warning. Do NOT try this at home.

[@user-yb8vr2ip2t]

The film went over your head, that's all.

[@7somekindofsomething]

Agreed. I find this movie too unenjoyable and it’s characters too void of any personality to make it’s message actually land.

[@713davidh42]

I've always been sympathetic towards Michel Piccoli's character, but now maybe not? 🤔 It is Georges Delerue music score that for me makes this a quality film.

[@user-yb8vr2ip2t]

Godard= Second to None.

[@hh7788ify]

Its my fav movie period

[@nyccheckin]

Get in the alpha, Romeo

[@meltup3668]

Great director, and great aesthetic, but good God I just can't stop hating this film! I hate how complicated and slow it is! I hate the personality that Bardot plays!

[@ricardotapia7572]

cinerama 2000

[@7somekindofsomething]

I hate this film haha.

[@hoyyali1594]

Opium!

[@median407]

Se la rifa.

[@aslan9334]

What does that mean!?

[@zazen108]

I want so much to join the party and see what every one else sees, but this movie is such a chore to sit through. The half an hour argument in their apartment where they refuse to communicate with each other and just repeat the same lines is interminable! How can anyone enjoy such relentless empty dialogue. Godard's characters are always so awful, despicable, intolerable, I can't wait to be rid of them. The leading man in Breathless is horrifying. The leading woman in A Married Woman is awful. Why make such unbearable movies? Please someone show me how they derive pleasure from sitting through these films. PLEASE!

[@SonofSethoitae]

Frankly, I only like it because I'm starved for footage of Fritz Lang talking about movies. The cinematography is interesting too, I guess, but mostly it's about Lang

[@brucejackson6451]

Well, you could just look at Bridget Bardot....that's not unbearable, is it?

[@ricardocima]

@@SonofSethoitae That's the best part of the film, indeed. But I don't understand how people cant see how thrilling the opening of the film is, with the words spoken, Delarue's fantastic soundtrack...or maybe appreciate the the statues on blue background...maybe some weed is required.

[@babyirene3188]

Sleepy stuff. Even with Bardot.

[@hunterhemingway3477]

lame film