Abstract

A good time to look in on a vanguard, once it has won its initial battles, is during the crisis of regroupment which inevitably ensues. In France, the flood of new productions by the Nouvelle Vague's followers caused a severe distribution backwash and a financing crisis for all except obviously commercial projects. The most persistent and astute directors, however have managed to continue working. To make Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard accepted a million dollars and Brigitte Bardot from Joseph E. Levine, who, as everyone knows, is Lorenzo the Magnificent of a cinema whose products are tailored to the distributor's measurements.

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