Brigitte Bardot: Le Mépris (1963)

American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) hires revered Austrian director Fritz Lang (playing himself) to direct a movie adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. discontent with Lang's treatment of the fabric as Associate in Nursing art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), a author and dramatist, to transform the script. The conflict between creative expression and industrial chance parallels Paul's sudden  estrangement from his married woman Camille Javal (Brigitte Bardot), United Nations agency becomes distant with Paul when being left alone with Prokosch, a have hedonist.

While supported on Alberto Moravia's story of the progressive estrangement between a husband and married woman, Godard's version additionally contains deliberate parallels with aspects of his own life: whereas Paul, Camille, and Prokosch correspond to Odysseus, Penelope, and Greek deity, severally, they additionally correspond in some ways that with film maker, his adult Pakistani monetary unit Karina and Joseph E. Levine the distributor of the film's .
Michel Piccoli additionally bears some likeness to Brigitte Bardot's man, the film producer Roger Vadim.Also notable within the film could be a discussion of poet – significantly Canto XXVI of Inferno, regarding Ulysses' last fatal voyage facet} the Pillars of Hercules to the opposite side of the planet – and Friedrich Hölderlin's literary work, "Dichterberuf" ("The Poet's Vocation").