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Pierrot Le Fou

Rated: Unrated | Format: DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

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Jean-Luc Godard has been called the most self-conscious, the most realistic, and the most modern of filmmakers. To his appreciators this means he owns up to the fact that a movie is a movie, that at any moment in one of his films you know you're watching a film by Jean-Luc Godard. His films are self-aware in a way that films never were before him. Pierrot le Fou achieves a rare spontaneity and naturalness, largely due to the presence of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, but also because of Godard's willingness to let go of any pretense to an illusionary or mimetic style, so-called "realism." What story there is has Pierrot (Belmondo) escaping from his boring life along with Marianne Renoir (Karina), who is chased by gangsters. But this is just an excuse to film a kind of essay to lost love, a poem to Karina that is delightful. If "Pierrot goes wild," then so does Godard, with Belmondo standing in for him in his pursuit of and journey with Karina. Godard is not for everyone, admittedly, but for those with the wherewithal to enjoy his films, they are receiving new life on DVD. Whatever coterie taste survives today has been distributed in multiple across the Internet and via the agency of video rental bins, perhaps all the more potent for that reach. Let's hope so. --Jim Gay

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Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeoisie behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, "the last romantic couple." With blissful color imagery by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their most animated, Pierrot le fou is one of the high points of the French new wave, and was Godard's last frolic before he moved ever further into radical cinema.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Godard's best, Jan 1 2000
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This review is from: Pierrot le fou (Widescreen) (VHS Tape)
A wonderful film. I can't recommend it highly enough, unless - like one of the reviewers here - this genre isn't really to your taste. My two favorite scenes; the montage when they're leaving her apartment early in the film, and the party where all but a couple of the people speak in advertising slogans.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Pierrot Le Fou, Nov 25 1999
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This review is from: Pierrot le fou (Widescreen) (VHS Tape)
First off, let me say that this film is not for everybody. If you love foreign cinema, then you should love this. It is classic Godard. His use of color and composition is outstanding. This was the first Godard film I saw in color and I was amazed by it. There is a nice cameo by director Sam Fuller. Those who are Godard fans must watch this. You will not be let down.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars O Criterion Where Are You, Feb 4 2004
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C. Rubin (San Leandro, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pierrot Le Fou (Widescreen) (DVD)
This is a five-star movie with a deduction for the DVD release. It may be that this movie will never look or sound that good technicallly, but a restoration would surely help. Even if Fox Lorber gave us only a commentary track, I would give the extra rating star; this is a bare-bones production effort of a movie that deserves the red-carpet treatment.
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