More surprising is how lushly romantic the film seems now -- even the frostiest qualities of the director's volatile aesthetic are warmed by the Riviera sunlight and the presence of Karina at her most beguiling.
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08/09/07
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
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
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Reviews for Pierrot Le Fou
Unmissable.
02/09/06
Provencal scenery is pretty, the movie-star chemistry is potent and Karina (then Mrs. Godard) has never looked more stunning.
08/30/07
... 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
Pierrot le Fou is a movie in love with movies, but mostly it's a movie in love with itself.
01/24/08
Engaging and beguiling - perhaps in spite of itself - and a vital part of film history.
05/22/09
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
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.
10/23/04
Top CriticAn 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
At times infuriatingly indulgent but is also an intoxicating, wildly inventive picaresque fantasy.
05/22/09
This sparkling, anarchic 1965 thriller is vintage Godard.
05/28/09
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
An idiosyncratic work by a filmmaker trotting out his obsessions of the moment and committing them to film without much regard for actual meaning.
09/30/09
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
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
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
... endlessly charming and entertaining ...
09/11/07
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
Totally bizarre and ultimately without much point -- Godard's message about commercialism is drowned in a sea of oddity.
03/02/03
...ultimately nothing more than an infuriatingly vague and utterly pointless piece of work...
07/25/07
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