Le mépris

Jean-Luc Godard / FR, IT, 1963 / 105 min.

Michel Piccoli enjoyed an uncommonly long career. The Paris-born actor, who died on 12 May, starred in more than 200 films and was the leading figure of the French Auteur Cinema. Eye screens Jean-Luc Godard’s Le mépris (Contempt) in honour of this outstanding actor. Le mépris chronicles the dissolution of a tragic love.