Films & Architecture: "Contempt"

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In collaboration with Carlo Ponti, Jean-Luc Godard, one of the main representatives of the 60′s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, adapted the Alberto Moravia novel Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon), written almost 10 years before, into Contempt. The result is a film where each scene is a composition in terms of colour, proportion, and contrast. And as an extra gift for us architects, most of the story takes place in and around the Villa Malaparte in Capri island, a stunning house on a rocky coast.

We invite you to enjoy this classic and let us know your ideas about the movie, this amazing house and the relationship with the surrounding landscape. More after the break.

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Cite: Daniel Portilla. "Films & Architecture: "Contempt"" 18 Dec 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/308345/films-architecture-contempt> ISSN 0719-8884

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