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French 1 panel classic French movie poster for the 1963 film
Le Mépris (English title: Contempt), starring Brigitte Bardot and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Film Overview
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Main Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and legendary director Fritz Lang playing himself.
Plot: The film is a drama based on Alberto Moravia's 1954 novel Il disprezzo. It follows Paul Javal (Piccoli), a screenwriter whose marriage to Camille (Bardot) disintegrates with "growing contempt" as he works on a commercial adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey for an arrogant American producer (Palance).
Themes: It explores the conflict between artistic integrity and commercial filmmaking, as well as the breakdown of a marriage. The film is celebrated for its distinctive New Wave style and striking cinematography by Raoul Coutard.
The artist who created the artwork for the original 1963 French movie poster for
Le Mépris is Georges Allard, who is sometimes known as Gilbert Allard.
Allard was a leading French postwar poster artist active from the late 1940s through the 1960s. He was known for using traditional painting techniques with fine brushwork to create detailed facial images for film posters, which was a contrast to the more graphic styles popular at the time. |
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