Contempt

The Crandell presents Un Peu de Godard, two showings of what many call the late father of French New Wave Cinema’s most accessible film, Contempt. Considered by some to also be his masterpiece, these 1963 scenes from an unlikely marriage are far less real than Bergman’s later version but still ravishing in glorious CinemaScope. Brigitte Bardot returns to form as the bombshell she launched in Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman (1956), which made her an international star and got theater managers in the US arrested for screening it. Legendary director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M, The Big Heat) plays himself and Godard his (uncredited)  AD. Restored in 2013 for the film’s 50th anniversary.