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Criterion does it again. A extraordinary, inviting 1963 film rescued from dreadful, outmoded prints and dismal video transfers and made to glimpse – like Criterion’s equally outstanding refurbishment of Fellini’s “Juliet of the Spirits” – almost like a brand-new movie; as neat and as dazzling as I have ever seen it. Not everyone will “come by” what Jean-Luc Godard is up to with “Contempt”, and some will net it but mild not care for it – sparkling enough. He never claimed to be making movies for every audience any more than he claimed to be making them for rarefied elites, nevertheless a huge spectrum of us do understand and luxuriate in his artistic project (of which this is one sublime outcome), and if you can suspend for two hours the narrow, ragged expectations Hollywood product has cultivated in many of us, that number may include you. Robert Stam’s alternate-channel audio commentary provides many inviting insights regarding the significance and filmmaking innovations of “Contempt”, along with kindly analysis of the sources of the narrative (in Homer and original Italian literature) and the performances, and some information regarding how the movie came to be cast and produced, which goes a long device toward explaining why Godard made the movie he eventually made. “Contempt” may be Godard’s most “traditional” film, but then art is not only about innovation, but also about mastery. If the performances are not always so subtle they are nevertheless wonderfully nuanced, including that of the astronomical director (and non-actor) Fritz Lang, and Brigitte Bardot – peaceful at the apogee of her Gallic voluptuousness – reveals a depth unimagined by those lickety-split to dismiss her bathtub sex kitten persona – not to mention, most of her legendarily shapely naked body, in Technicolor and CinemaScope. It’s as powerful about how things don’t work in a relationship as it is about how they don’t work (for the purposes of art) in the movie business, and is as relevant to both subjects today as forty years ago. The second disc supplements include gripping and palatable interviews (especially the conversation between Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang), and a short subject about Bardot and the photographers who followed her around relentlessly (“Paparazzi”) that’s unbiased fun. Disc two also features the perfect antidote to today’s movie trailers that go on and on and spoil everything: the one for “Contempt” shows you images from the film but manages to disclose almost nothing about it! This was a home urge, Criterion – thank you, thank you, thank you!
No one has captured the waste of a relationship on film better than Godard in Contempt. In between the excrutiatingly right scenes between Piccoli and Bardot are musings on the nature of cinema, Homer’s Odyssey, Godardian polemics and a practical treatise on the expend of color in film by Raoul Coutard. And those tracking shots of Godard! This is a terrific DVD – the image and color are splendid, sound crystal definite. Another mountainous presentation from the Criterion Collection. But what I really appreciated was that on the disc’s menu cover there was a plump rendition of George Delerue’s fine main theme, easily one of the most resplendent motif’s ever written for film. Worth the tag of the DVD for that alone.
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