Again the issue is – a couple. The faces are different (Michel Piccoli, Brigitte Bardot), but the couple that is disappearing before our eyes are Jean-Luc Godard and Ana Karina. Long scenes preview household symbolizes a certain vision of couple. Echoes and recalls the famous scene from ‘’À bout de souffle/Breathless’’ However, in that film, the characters are looking preferably … They kiss, fondle, hug… In ‘’Le Mépris/Contempt’’ rooms are larger, but the characters do not touch and watch from afar. The woman was reduced to a body that is sold, such as on billboards.

Inspirational thought of the famous French poet and philosopher Paul Valery: We know that all civilizations have their own end. This leads to the thought that even the movie, which is a product of our time, has its end. For this reason, this issue will become almost an opsession for Godard.
If every civilization ends, it means that we also have an end. We’ll recorde a world on the exhale. A world in ruins. In this movie all things are brought to decay. Neglected gardens, the walls of Cinecitta, the walls of the villa on Capri.
Homer’s Odyssey was forgotten and almost lost all meaning. Emptiness… Empty corridors, empty houses, empty movie theater. No more movies. Civilization and the film came to an end.