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Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Anna Karina,
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Jean-Luc Godard,
Jean-Luc Godard
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: Criterion
: Action, Drama, Foreign, Suspense/Thriller, Romance, France, Crime, Experimental/Avant-Garde, Criterion Collection, French New Wave
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: English
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Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Karina). They meet when Ferdinand's wife hires Marianne as a baby-sitter. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to run away with her. The couple get caught up in a mysterious gun-running scheme involving Marianne's brother (Dirk Sanders). With Pierrot le fou Godard returns to the story of A bout de souffle (Breathless): the tale of a couple on the run. But in the six years between the two films Godard developed a more complex and often difficult style. Pierrot le fou incorporates musical numbers, references to the history of cinema and painting, and quotations from literature. The film features Godard's most extended use of color to that point, as the shots are filled with blocks of bright primary colors. Pierrot le fou is a catalogue of cinematic inventions and of gestures made by couples in love. ~ Louis Schwartz, All Movie Guide
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| Pierrot le Fou (Criterion Collection) (Bonus Disc) (1965) |
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| Comment dit-on "Over-rated"?
by talltale
March 6, 2008 - 12:38 PM PST
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2 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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| PIERROT LE FOU offers Jean-Luc Godard in full-blown Mr. Smarty Pants manner (there are those of us who feel that this is actually his default mode). Whatever--the result is cute enough to set one's teeth permanently on edge. Technically more proficient than his earlier "A Woman Is a Woman" (the enjoyable parts here are due almost entirely to the crack cinematography of Raoul Coutard), the film is non-stop references to other movies, as well as the writer/director's not-very-interesting ideas on life, love and movie genres. After a period of being subjected to these never-ending "hi-jinx," you just want to haul off and slap Belmondo and Karina silly. But don't believe me: Rent and wallow. I suppose, in its time, "Pierrot le Fou" appeared novel. But some wines--say, ripple posing as a light, bright burgundy--neither age nor travel well. |
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