Contempt

A profoundly sad yet beautiful fable about the cinema, CONTEMPT is the story of Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), a former writer of detective stories who has become a screenwriter of little consequence. He claims that he longs to write for the stage but he believes that his beautiful young wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), expects more financial rewards than the theater can offer. Paul is approached by crass American film producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to perform a rewrite on the screenplay for his production of Homer's Odyssey. The film is to be directed by the legendary German director Fritz Lang (playing himself). Paul accepts the job, but Camille is ...