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LE MEPRIS [CONTEMPT] (1963)

$375.00

Vintage original 9 x 12″ (24 x 31 cm.) pressbook, France. Oblong 4to, stiff linen wrappers, 8 pp. (two of them brightly colored full-page color photographs from the film, both of them showing Bardot). Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, dir: Jean-Luc Godard; Cocinor.

One of the landmark films of the French New Wave, both a story of a disintegrating marriage and one of the most prominent early examples of post-modernist deconstruction of narrative on film. JUST ABOUT FINE.