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Article: Contempt. (Homevideo).(Movie Review)
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- March 22, 2003
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Directed by Jean-Luc Godard; screenplay by Jean-Luc Godard; cinematography by Raoul Coutard; edited by Agnes Guillemot; music by Georges Delerue; starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll and Fritz Lang. Color, 104 mins. A Criterion Collection release distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, www.homevision.com.
When in 1959 Jean-Luc Godard helped kick off the French 'New Wave' with his first feature film, Breathless, one could already hear the big producers licking their chops. Even though the French filmmaker broke a number of rules, and even though the noir/gangster narrative comes more from Sartre than from Chandler, Breathless ...