| The commission for this ballet was offered to Godard, a well-known French composer. |
| No one else does with available light what Godard does, which brings about a singular beauty. |
| In turning the genre inside out, Godard creates a world in which real emotions resemble artifice. |
| To mohawked viewers, it's a tribute to the Vancouver punk music scene, while goateed audiences might see it as homage to the work of Jean-Luc Godard. |
| Godard begins Contempt with a vision of cinema as movement as order, and he climaxes it with a vision of life as stasis as disorder. |
| In the facades of run-down buildings and the cattle-like movement of market-goers, Godard illumines the sense of defeat and disillusionment here. |
