LE MEPRIS

Le Mepris is a film directed by Jean-Luc Godard on 1963. The film was based on an Italian novel Il disprezzo.

The movie is about a couple, Paul Javal and Camille Javal, whose relationship was tested due to misunderstandings and priorities. Camile Javal is a very beautiful woman who is married to Paul Javal a scriptwriter. Paul Javal was assigned to write a script for a movie adaptation of Homer's Odyssey.. Fritz Lang was hired by the American Producer, Jeremy Prokosch, to direct the film. When Jeremy Prokosch met Paul Javal and his wife he had found Paul's wife to be beautiful. When Jeremy Prokosch invites the couple to have drinks, Paul arrives late and Camille started suspecting that Paul might have cheated on her.

The couple were bound in arguments and misunderstandings. Paul Javal became dedicated to his work that he lost time for Camille. The two fell out of love and separated. Camille Javal then goes to France but on their way there, Camille and Jeremy were in a car accident were the two died.

This film was shown to us last Wednesday and I think that there are points in the movie that would be boring and there would be points where your emotions gather up. Some scenes in the film were very long, for example is the conversation of Camille and Paul inside their house. The continuous camera shot was evident and it took really long for the certain conversation to keep on going.

There are scenes that would play with your emotions like their conversation in the apartment when they would be mad at each other and later on be alright. I think the different emotions set the long dragging shot of a scene made it less noticeable to be boring and long.