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A Film and Its Era: Contempt, by Jean-Luc Godard (Il était une fois… Le mépris, 2009)
France 
Director: Antoine de Gaudemar
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Fritz Lang
Presentation:
What happens behind the scenes of a film? How does the director deal with the stars and his crew? What is the social and political context in which a film is made? Does it affect the film? The ultimate documentary series that sets out to resolve these questions and more is finally on Eurochannel: A Film and Its Era.
This 30-episode documentary series aims to reveal all the secrets and historical contexts of a particular cult film, its groundbreaking director, and the epoch it represents. Made by a different director, each episode of this series offers extracts of the film, as well as exclusive interviews with its director, protagonists and cinema historians, to present a holistic view of the production.
With a great sense of aesthetics and a comprehensive account of each movie, A Film and Its Era includes directors and classics such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious, Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City, Roman Polanski's Tess, Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise, and many more. 
Accompany us on a cinematic journey and discover the secrets behind some of your favorite movies in this celebratory documentary.
Synopsis:
Jean-Luc Godard directed Contempt in 1963. Brigitte Bardot, who was one of cinema’s global icons at the time, shared the lead in the film with Fritz Lang, who plays himself, a creatorof movies. The film blends two ruptures: that of a young womanand her screenwriter husband (Michel Piccoli), and that of the German director andanAmerican producer (Jack Palance). At the time in which the film is set, television is thriving and the number of films has diminished;movie theaters are closingand cinemais experiencingan existential crisis. The early 1960s wasthe only time of thecentury whenHollywood didnot dominate movies. For Jean-LucGodard, it wasthe end of a cinema that he loved passionately.
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