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
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 4.5/5 |
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 |
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10/10 |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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 |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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This sparkling, anarchic 1965 thriller is vintage Godard. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Engaging and beguiling - perhaps in spite of itself - and a vital part of film history. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Godard and his great cinematographer, Raoul Coutard, translate the ideas into some of the most visually exuberant French cinema of the Sixties. Full Review |
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 2/5 |
As a simple on-the-road crime thriller, it works well enough although parts of it don't make a lot of sense. Full Review |
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4/5 |
At times infuriatingly indulgent but is also an intoxicating, wildly inventive picaresque fantasy. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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... 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 Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
It's one of Pierrot's unique charms that Godard doesn't regard Ferdinand and Marianne's situation with emphatic mockery or inordinate reverence. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Pierrot le Fou is a movie in love with movies, but mostly it's a movie in love with itself. Full Review |
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... endlessly charming and entertaining ... Full Review |
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B |
Provencal scenery is pretty, the movie-star chemistry is potent and Karina (then Mrs. Godard) has never looked more stunning. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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