‘Contempt’: On the Big Screen, Jean-Luc Godard’s Tragic Romance
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‘Someone told methat you have a very beautiful wife.” Words spoken by a predatory American producer, Jerry Prokosch ( Jack Palance ), to a French screenwriter, Paul Javal ( Michel Piccoli ), in Jean-Luc Godard ’s majestic, witty and sorrowful film “Contempt” (1963), they threaten not just a…
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