SCREENING ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH.

Novelist and playwright Paul (Michel Piccoli) is hired by avaricious Hollywood producer Jerry (Jack Palance) to rework an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey to be filmed by Fritz Lang (playing himself) in order to give it more commercial appeal. When the producer makes a pass at Paul’s wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot), what she deems Paul’s lack of sufficient outrage causes a rift between the two. The experience of making a big budget film with big stars was soured for Godard by the producers’ demands, yet the result is an uncompromising masterpiece seething with anger.

Notes by David O Mahony

Screening as part of Truth, 24 Frames per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard