
There, he captured the goosebump-raising moment when they wrote Sympathy For The Devil. Having failed to interest John Lennon in playing Leon Trotsky, he set up cameras in London's Olympic Studios to film the Stones recording what would become their classic album Beggar's Banquet. When that project fell through, he told producers he would only stay in London if he could work with the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. In 1968, Godard travelled to the UK intending to make a film about abortion.
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In return, he made the scene deliberately un-erotic, shooting Bardot through a series of coloured filters, while underscoring the fragility of her character's marriage. The opening scene, in which Bardot appears in bed with her husband, was added at the insistence of producers, who were furious that Godard had not included any nudity in his film. Nine things about the man who changed cinemaĬontempt is often taken as a commentary on the machinations of the film industry, and Godard certainly faced uncomfortable compromises while making it.

Legendary film director Jean-Luc Godard dies The writer is pressured to make the script more commercial, against the vision of director Fritz Lang (playing himself) - and the compromises he's forced to make sour his relationship with his wife (Bardot).

Godard's 1963 film Contempt (Le Mépris) was his only venture into orthodox, big-budget film-making, starring France's most famous actress, Brigitte Bardot.Īdapted from Alberto Moravia's 1954 novel, it follows a failed playwright (Michel Piccoli) who is hired by a corrupt US film producer (Jack Palance) to write a screen adaptation of The Odyssey.
