@deanduncan63Saw Godard’s #Contempt. He’s vaunted for his vast reading, & the provocative manner in which he incorporates that reading into his films …
… Right, good. But here he really runs rough-shod over Moravia’s incredibly dark & detailed account of husbandly compulsion/paranoia …
… wifely impenetrability—as it were—& apocalyptic domestic dissolution. Not so much radical adaptation as just missing the point!
#Contempt. Godard doesn’t do much/anything w’ Moravia’s Ulysses/Penelope parallels. Bardot, on the other hand …
… And, just as much/in his own way, Piccoli. By implication & beauty, Godard actually does do right by Moravia.
#Contempt. Not so great w’ its literary source, I say. Coutard’s colour cinematography, however, is one of those so-beautiful things …
… that literature can’t hope to approach film in. Capri! And Delerue’s score as majestic Fritz Lang walks quietly across that broad expanse …