Le mépris : Contempt / Studio Canal ; Cocinor présente a film by Jean-Luc Godard ; Georges de Beauregard and Carlo Ponti produced it for Rome-Paris Films, Films Concordia, and Compagnia Cinematografia Champion.

Format Video (DVD)
EditionSpecial ed., RSDL dual-layer ed.
Publication Info[United States] : Criterion Collection, ©2002.
Description2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorPonti, Carlo, 1912-2007.
Other author/creatorGodard, Jean-Luc, 1930-2022
Other author/creatorBardot, Brigitte.
Other author/creatorPiccoli, Michel, 1925-2020
Other author/creatorPalance, Jack, 1919-2006.
Other author/creatorMoll, Giorgia.
Other author/creatorLang, Fritz, 1890-1976.
Other author/creatorCoutard, Raoul.
Other author/creatorDelerue, Georges, 1925-1992.
Other author/creatorMoravia, Alberto, 1907-1990 Disprezzo.
Other author/creatorCompagnia Cinematografica Champion.
Other author/creatorFilms Concordia (Paris, France)
Other author/creatorRome Paris Films.
Variant title Disc title: Contempt
SeriesThe Criterion collection ; 171
The classic collection
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 171. ^A506835
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.) ^A490524
Abstract Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French dramatist and his wife visit the producer's villa in Capri. There the wife and producer engage in an affair, and she decides to leave her husband. However, something quite unexpected happens.
General noteOriginally produced as a French motion picture in 1963.
General noteBased on the novel Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia.
General noteSpecial features: audio commentary by film scholar Robert Stam; improved English subtitle translation; two 1963 documentaries by Jacques Rozier from the set Bardot et Godard (8 min.) and Paparazzi (18 min.) ; The dinosaur and the baby (1967), a conversation between Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang (60 min.); Encounter with Fritz Lang (1963), a short film by Peter Fleischmann; interview with Raoul Coutard; excerpt from an interview between François Chalais and Jean-Luc Godard about the film; theatrical trailer.
General noteSecond series and first series numbering from container.
General note2.35:1 aspect ratio; enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs.
General noteRecorded in Dolby digital mono.
General noteProgram notes by Phillip Lopate inserted in container.
CreditsCinematography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Agnès Guillemot, Issa Clubb (Coutard interview) ; music, Georges Delerue ; camera, André Bonzel (Coutard interview).
Cast Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang.
Technical detailsDVD.
LanguageFrench dialogue, English subtitles; optional English-dubbed soundtrack.
ISBN0780026179
UPC 037429173121