Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Anna Karina,
Dirk Sanders,
Raymond Devos,
Graziella Galvani
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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 hire... read more
DVD Release Date: February 19, 2008
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September 26, 2011Pierrot le Fou is simple, yet completely exaggerated, such is the diversity and contradicting style of Godard. Ok, so it's no Breathless but it looks so good and it really is the quintessential 60's French film, switching between reality and fantasy in the name of freedom and the... read more
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November 20, 2010a step beyond À bout de souffle lies godard's avant-garde bonnie and clyde; not only influencing that film but likely influenced by it since he'd been sent the script in '65. whether this film used a script at all is an open question: it has only the barest outlines of a plot, m... read more
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October 20, 2010This review was long overdue. It's been quite a while since I saw this but its images are very difficult to forget, and its freewheeling, deliberately anarchic spirit remains fresh and perhaps has a longer-lasting effect than the film itself.
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January 17, 2010godard, belmondo, and karina team up again for a truly chaotic but wildly entertaining crime story that plays like a bonnie and clyde story with betrayal mixed in. karina is as beautiful as ever in this film, and although it has its absurd moments, the dialogue is as good as eve... read more
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July 9, 2009I don't really enjoy this whole movement of French New Wave just because there is nothing I can relate to. It's one of those movies I can still stand to watch just because there is so much style going on despite the ridiculousness of the characters' actions. Really, it's just a b... read more
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July 2, 2010fb1144932598I get it that Jean-Luc Godard is an auteur of the highest caliber. I get it that this is a cinematic abstract painting. I get it that it is filled with brilliant intellectual references. But, as a film, I just don't get it. Bizarre, disjointed scenes pile up one after another and... read more
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July 19, 2011fb208103125All the rules are bent or disregarded entirely in Godard's Pierrot le Fou and that isn't necessarily a bad thing. While it's said that the film can't fully be deconstructed, which I would agree with, there is an outline of a plot which revolves around Ferdinand and Marianne. Th... read more
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March 2, 2010Although I was excited by this movie, and personally thought it was masterfully made, I wouldn't hold it against anyone who absolutely despised it. Godard's techniques here give the piece an improvisational feel, and it's difficult to distinguish greater meaning on a first viewin... read more
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June 11, 2011The film is visually very pleasing, and both Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo give very good performances, but their characters aren't very engaging and the film is too long for such a thin plot.
Critic Reviews
August 9, 2007
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
August 9, 2007
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Made in 1965, this film, with its ravishing colors and beautiful 'Scope camerawork by Raoul Coutard, still looks as iconoclastic and fresh as it did when it belatedly opened in the U.S. Full Review
August 9, 2007
Variety Staff, Variety
The result is repetitive and precious rather than inventive and fresh. Full Review
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I once wrote of it as "Godard's most virtuoso display of his mastery of Hollywood genres," I now see it more as the story of silly characters who have seen too many Hollywood movies. Full Review
July 26, 2011
Dan Jardine, Cinemania
Pierrot is a self conscious mash up of every movie genre that Godard loves, of every movie he has made, of all the artistic references (music, painting, literature) that have influenced or affected him Full Review
September 30, 2009
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
An idiosyncratic work by a filmmaker trotting out his obsessions of the moment and committing them to film without much regard for actual meaning. Full Review
September 26, 2009
Christopher Long, Movie Metropolis
And then theres the color. As much as anything, "Pierrot" is a film about red and blue, as well as a little bit of yellow and green. Full Review
September 21, 2009
Peter Canavese, Groucho Reviews
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] Full Review
May 28, 2009
Edward Porter, Times [UK]
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 postmode... Full Review
May 28, 2009
Philip French, Observer [UK]
This sparkling, anarchic 1965 thriller is vintage Godard. Full Review
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