Mepris, Le
Date: 1963
Director: Jean Luc Goddard
Production Company: Les Films Concordia, Rome Paris Films, Compagnia Cinematogra
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Fritz Lang
Location(s): Capri, Rome
Region(s): Italy
Storyline:
Palance is hired to beef up a screenplay about Odysseus, while falling out of love with Bardot. Is he mad? Well, I think this is the plot. I can tell you that the title, whose e should embrace an acute accent, means contempt or disregard.
Additional Information:
Stills by SJ
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Palance overlooking the Gulf of Salerno.
- Capture 2
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High up on the east coast of Capri on the Punta Massullo
- Capture 3
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Not a reel street but a reel path, halfway between villa Iovis and Capri Town.
- Capture 4
- 19 Oct 2012
Casa Malaparte, built during the onset of WWII, by Adalberto Libera for Curzio Malaparte
Well nobody took up the challenge after a year and a half (and I don't blame that someone as it's quite a walk) so here's a replacement now after my initially poor effort. SJ
- Capture 5
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Bardot standing on the roof of the Casa Malaparte with the Sorrentine peninsula in the background.
- Capture 6
- 19 Oct 2012
Extraodinary reversed pyramidal stairs leading to the roof.
Again the angle's wrong but otherwise it's not too bad an effort. This is a view to be found if one takes the circular Via Matermania from Capri Town. SJ
- Capture 7
- 19 Oct 2012
A reward for climbing those stairs? A nice curving wall.
The wall's been painted in the 50 year interim. SJ
- Capture 8
- 19 Oct 2012
No silly me, a better reward after all.
No chance for that reward! SJ
- Capture 9
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Palance and Bardot with I Faraglioni in the background.
- Capture 10
- 19 Oct 2012
The stairs cut into the rock leading to the sea.
From a distance. SJ