Comments on: CONTEMPT by Jean-Luc Godard http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/contempt-mepris-godard-brigitte-bardot/ thinking film Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Shane James Bordas http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/contempt-mepris-godard-brigitte-bardot/#comment-305498 Shane James Bordas Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:09:31 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/contempt-mepris-godard-brigitte-bardot/#comment-305498 To slight Godard is one thing, but to call another writer "wrong" because you don't share their view is the tell-tale sign of a hack. I can't argue with your regard for Bergman (my personal favourite) or Antonioni (although I would argue that Godard is the greater artist there) but to use them as whipping posts for your obvious frustration with the work JLG is laughable and hardly the work of a serious critic. You need to try harder. To slight Godard is one thing, but to call another writer “wrong” because you don’t share their view is the tell-tale sign of a hack. I can’t argue with your regard for Bergman (my personal favourite) or Antonioni (although I would argue that Godard is the greater artist there) but to use them as whipping posts for your obvious frustration with the work JLG is laughable and hardly the work of a serious critic. You need to try harder.

]]> By: Jack http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/contempt-mepris-godard-brigitte-bardot/#comment-290815 Jack Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:37:05 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/contempt-mepris-godard-brigitte-bardot/#comment-290815 "A big negative, however, is the Georges Delerue score. The main theme herks and jerks into inappropriate scenes, and often adds a melodramatic touch that is almost laughable. It also rises up and cuts off without warning — and without any relation to what is taking place on-screen." Maybe it was just me, but when I saw Contempt, I instantly thought of Louis Armstrong's We Have All the Time in the World, from that James Bond film, which I believe was the last song he recorded, when I first heard that main theme. Did you think of that, too? “A big negative, however, is the Georges Delerue score. The main theme herks and jerks into inappropriate scenes, and often adds a melodramatic touch that is almost laughable. It also rises up and cuts off without warning — and without any relation to what is taking place on-screen.”

Maybe it was just me, but when I saw Contempt, I instantly thought of Louis Armstrong’s We Have All the Time in the World, from that James Bond film, which I believe was the last song he recorded, when I first heard that main theme. Did you think of that, too?

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