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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 24
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
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
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.
This sparkling, anarchic 1965 thriller is vintage Godard.
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.
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.
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.
Engaging and beguiling - perhaps in spite of itself - and a vital part of film history.
Godard and his great cinematographer, Raoul Coutard, translate the ideas into some of the most visually exuberant French cinema of the Sixties.
As a simple on-the-road crime thriller, it works well enough although parts of it don't make a lot of sense.
Top CriticAt times infuriatingly indulgent but is also an intoxicating, wildly inventive picaresque fantasy.
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Top CriticPierrot 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
... 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
It's one of Pierrot's unique charms that Godard doesn't regard Ferdinand and Marianne's situation with emphatic mockery or inordinate reverence.
Pierrot le Fou is a movie in love with movies, but mostly it's a movie in love with itself.
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Top Critic... endlessly charming and entertaining ...
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Top CriticProvencal scenery is pretty, the movie-star chemistry is potent and Karina (then Mrs. Godard) has never looked more stunning.
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.
Top CriticMade 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.
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