An idiosyncratic work by a filmmaker trotting out his obsessions of the moment and committing them to film without much regard for actual meaning.
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09/30/09
Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:28
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: French auteur Jean-Luc Godard continues his fascination with the crime genre--after BREATHLESS and BAND OF OUTSIDERS--with PIERROT LE FOU. After escaping his stale, bourgeois marriage, Ferdinand... [More]
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Reviews for Pierrot Le Fou
And then there´s the color. As much as anything, "Pierrot" is a film about red and blue, as well as a little bit of yellow and green.
09/26/09
Theirs is, in their own words, 'A story,' 'All mixed up,' and their self-construction mimics that of their true Creator, the ever-experimental auteur Jean-Luc Godard. [Blu-ray]
09/21/09
At its worst, in some of its improvised rambles, it demonstrates the value of a well-thought-out screenplay. At its exhilarating and poignant best, it proves that a film can play all sorts of postmodern games yet still touch its viewers’ emotions.
05/28/09
This sparkling, anarchic 1965 thriller is vintage Godard.
05/28/09
A wild-eyed, everything-in-the-pot cross-processing of artistic, cinematic, political and personal concerns, where the story stutters, splinters and infuriates its way to an explosive finale.
05/22/09
An eye-poppingly vivid exercise in genre-busting filmmaking. Here is one of the most persistently intriguing directors of the 1960s at his most watchable and entertaining.
05/22/09
Godard opens up his box of tricks and tips it all over the screen in a flurry of improvised, postmodernism that takes scattergun shots at consumerism, cultural imperialism and the Vietnam and Algerian wars.
05/22/09
Top CriticEngaging and beguiling - perhaps in spite of itself - and a vital part of film history.
05/22/09
Top CriticGodard and his great cinematographer, Raoul Coutard, translate the ideas into some of the most visually exuberant French cinema of the Sixties.
05/22/09
As a simple on-the-road crime thriller, it works well enough although parts of it don't make a lot of sense.
05/22/09
At times infuriatingly indulgent but is also an intoxicating, wildly inventive picaresque fantasy.
05/22/09
Pierrot is a mess, no matter how many times you see it, but it’s a brilliant mess. Death of love, (re)birth of cinema.
04/23/09
Pierrot Le Fou was [Godard's] way of wrapping up the past before stepping forward into his next phase of overtly political filmmaking -- a magnificent mash-up before the manifestos to come
03/17/08
... plays like Godard's formal farewell to his past films, a last play with his old toys before putting them into storage and moving on to more serious concerns
02/21/08
It's one of Pierrot's unique charms that Godard doesn't regard Ferdinand and Marianne's situation with emphatic mockery or inordinate reverence.
02/17/08
Pierrot le Fou is a movie in love with movies, but mostly it's a movie in love with itself.
01/24/08
... endlessly charming and entertaining ...
09/11/07
Provencal scenery is pretty, the movie-star chemistry is potent and Karina (then Mrs. Godard) has never looked more stunning.
08/30/07
So challenging and prolific has been Godard's 53-year career that virtually all of his films are as deserving of revival as Pierrot le Fou.
08/09/07
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