Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced that they will be releasing the French New Wave classic Le Mépris (Contempt) from director Jean-Luc Godard on 4K UHD Digital on September 12, and on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on September 26, 2023. The release features a special introduction by Colin MacCabe, an academic, film producer, and author of Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy. The romantic drama features performances by Brigitte Bardot (…And God Created Woman), Jack Palance (City Slickers), and Fritz Lang (M). Get more detail below!
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Synopsis: Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard’s landmark movie Le Mépris (Contempt) with this first-ever 4K release. Weaving provocative storylines with a stunning visual style, Le Mépris is a movie within a movie. On the surface, the film is about a director (Michel Piccoli) whose wife Camille (screen legend Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with him while he rewrites an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey for an American producer (Jack Palance). But underneath this tale of a doomed romance lies Godard’s true subject: the commercial film industry, which he skewers in an unforgettable tour de force that is subversive, darkly comic, and completely original.
The film will be presented in Dolby Vision with French and English DTS-HD 2.0 Master Audio tracks.
Special Features
- An Introduction by Colin MacCabe
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