Contempt (1963) DVD Criterion

After a solemn declaration of love, devotion, and everlasting adoration, financially hard-pressed French playwright Paul Javal asks insecure Camille, his fatally beautiful young wife, to join him on a trip to Rome's eerily empty Cinecitta studios. But there, summoned by coarse American producer Jeremy Prokosch to improve and commercialise Fritz Lang's screen adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey", Paul eventually succumbs to compromise and marital sin. As a result, Paul can only witness the rapid disintegration of his once cloudless relationship unfold in the materialistic producer's iconic, sun-kissed villa in Capri. The mistake is unforgivable, and the burden unbearable. And now, as intolerable uncertainty replaces love, cold contempt is all that's left.