It’s definitely still Georges Delerue though, isn’t it? But I can’t place it in the actual movie either. But it’s very fine indeed. This is slated for UHD release from June 14.
Nice to have a date for it. I want that new poster they mention in th press release. I do have this one already framed in my place...It’s definitely still Georges Delerue though, isn’t it? But I can’t place it in the actual movie either. But it’s very fine indeed. This is slated for UHD release from June 14.
Yes. It's definitely Delerue. And it sounds familiar, but I don't think it's any of the cues from Le mepris. I have a CD of themes from Godard films, and there are four from Le mepris and this cue isn't there. I mean, Delerue was so damned prolific. It could be anything. While it works well with the trailer, it doesn't have the resonance of that haunting "tragic-romantic" theme, with those long harmonic lines, chromatic and almost tipping out into atonality, that is under the main title in Le mepris. It's very "Viennese". It gets under your skin, in a way the cue used for the trailer doesn't. It may be Delerue's greatest creation, along with The Conformist.
Lucky you. I placed my order yesterday for Le Mepris at Amazon.uk along with the Lizzzie extravaganza The Driver's Seat, but I'm not supposed to get them until mid July.
Does anyone have a link to purchase the poster for the new restoration? It is mentioned on the studiocanal site but I don't see any link to purchase it. Any insight would be appreciated. M
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I totally agree. Out of his 1960's productions this is easily my least favorite. I love Godard but never enjoyed this film.
To each their own, as they say. Many people consider Le Mepris not only Godard's greatest, but one of the most sublime landmarks of 1960's cinema. I tend to agree, though back when I was young and saw Contempt in a harsh yellow print at the Thalia, I didn't like it at all. (It was on a double bill with Repulsion, which probably didn't help.) Then, a few years later, a friend dragged me to the Elgin which had an original Italian Technicolor print--very similar to the restoration on this new 4K--and I began to love the film, though it still didn't make a lot of sense. Le Mepris is a film that grows on you, that improves with age. Though Godard was in his early 30's when he directed it, it's an old man's film, elegaic, meditating on eternity and the silence of the primordial world, which is in opposition to the contemporary sensibilities of most of the characters, and alters their lives without their awareness of it. Call it fate or or augury, if you like, but that tragic sensibility is alive in every image of the Mediterranean, the sun shimmering on the waves, the same vista as seen by Ulysses or Homer. Looking at the film today, it seems utterly perfect, overwhelmingly emotional and devastating as well as visually stunning. The film asks, what is intimacy? Can it exist in a world of continual change? Those questions haven't gone away. In fact, they're deeper and more urgent than before. The formal strategies and parallel dialogue and doubling characters than once seemed confusing and cold to me are now so full of meaning and life.
