If you loved Beau Travail, try Contempt
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the bittersweet, sexy mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Beau Travail, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Contempt is
Rome, a yacht, a dismissed screenwriter's typewriter. A film adaptation of The Odyssey falters, a marriage frays, a producer intervenes. Godard critiques the commodification of art with characteristic bluntness.

