Screening No. 15
We'd like to invite you all to our third in the series 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963). Although this film needs little introduction you may be wondering why we have chosen to screen it as part of the 'In The Event of a Catastrophe', series. Well we feel the the film has real tension, predominantly felt in the protagonists marriage, that tension which one feels in the event of a looming catastrophe. Another dynamic along this theme is the references made to Homer's Odyssey that perhaps in relation to Theodore Adorno's 1947 essay entitled "Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment" (a piece that became popular in the 60's), which explains the theory of the "enlightenment myth" which claims to found all western society in that of the ancient Greek's reinforcing chosen laws and systems of hierarchy. It is this entrapment that looms over us as a catastrophe that has already happened, one that we cannot escape from.
See the legendary Fritz Lang playing himself as an exiled Hollywood director and Bridget Bardot as the Siren temptress. Set on the Italian coast the cinematography is mesmerising and romantic.
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