A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
Cinematography
Coutard's widescreen palette makes misery look vacation-worthy.
Direction
Godard weaponizes the color red and a rotating camera.
Writing
Every line about Odysseus is actually about this marriage.
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Godard wrote the script in three days after producer Carlo Ponti demanded something 'commercial' with Bardot. The rotating apartment shot took four days to build the rig.
This is Godard's only film shot in CinemaScope—he called it 'VistaVision for poor people' and used the format to trap his characters in horizontal cages of miscommunication.
FR
