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Contempt (Le mépris)

France/Italy 1963

Jean-Luc Godard

103 min. DCP

In French with English subtitles

Lionized by Sight and Sound critic Colin MacCabe as “the greatest work of art produced in postwar Europe,” the ingeniously selfreflexive Contempt, turning 60 this year, is the first and finest of many Godard films about the making of a film. Both an obituary for Hollywood cinema and a genuinely moving portrait of the breakdown of a marriage, the film features Michel Piccoli as Paul, a hired-gun screenwriter brought in to rewrite a big-budget adaptation of The Odyssey. The director of this movie-within-themovie is no less than the great Fritz Lang, playing himself; Jack Palance is the project’s crass, interfering producer; while Brigitte Bardot is Paul’s bored wife Camille, who has grown to despise her husband. Godard, who appears as Lang’s assistant, described the characters as “survivors of the shipwreck of modernity.” Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, magnificently shot by Raoul Coutard, with a bold colour scheme of Mondrian reds and blues.

Be on the lookout for more Godard in 2024 when we launch “JLG Forever,” a year-long tribute to the iconic French auteur.

“Brilliance and Bardot, all in one … A multi-layered odyssey of intelligence and sensuality … One of the masterworks of modern cinema.”

Philip Lopate, The New York Times

Nobody’s Hero (Viens, je t’emmène)

France 2022

Alain Guiraudie

100 min. DCP

In French with English subtitles

Vancouver Premiere

“A wonderfully humanist film in the end, for the great generosity it has towards everyone who steps into its frame … [Reminiscent] of 1930s Renoir like Le crime de Monsieur Lange.”

Edo Choi, Film Comment

Since the breakthrough of Stranger by the Lake in 2013 (a “Best of the Decade” selection here), Alain Guiraudie has done everything in his power to maintain, rather than smooth away, the edges of his taboo-breaking cinema. His latest is no exception. A disarmingly casual shuffle of genres, Nobody’s Hero takes on some serious subjects: the flux of national identity, the media-fuelled paranoia that trails terrorist attacks, the liberatory power and gendered control of sex—all in the shape of a comedy! Across a wildly modulated cast of characters—a jogging-suit-clad tech consultant, the two social pariahs he attracts into his life, plus his neighbours and a list of enemies—Guiraudie reshapes a community, one built on the uneven ground of charity mixed with prejudice. Made in the spirit of the early social satires of Renoir and Almodóvar, this is a film with the energy of Freud’s invitation to recognize dreams filled with distressing content as possible sources of wish-fulfillment.

One of the Top Ten Films of 2022