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In Reply to: RE: Godard's "Contempt" -- widescreen jewel of the New Wave posted by clarkjohnsen on April 14, 2008 at 11:24:20
Great film; nice reading.
I've had precisely the same impression re the Antonioni feel of it.
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You note the humor. Yes.
The film is always pressing the borders of the absurd. Abuse, emotional and otherwise, is a vehicle for parody, for the surreal. Irony is a relief. Everything is over the top, dramatically, perfectly contained, normalized.
Civility is deliberately, intelligently perverted before our eyes, by the story, the players and the director, yet we go along with it all because the perverse truths revealed are so familiar. There's security in the known, regardless the pain. What a cast!
Very life-affirming, this film. Art of a high order.
I'm reminded of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe when I see Contempt.
Speaking of Antonioni, have you seen Il Grido? Highly recommended.
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