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But "Pierrot le Fou" is more relaxed, more fun, less bitter than "Weekend." And it contains Godard's most virtuoso display of his mastery of Hollywood genres. It seems to be a gangster picture: Jean-Paul Belmondo leaves his wife and goes to live with his former girlfriend, Anna Karina .
Aug 16, 2007 · Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina are lovers who run from their spouses and into a life of crime in Pierrot Le Fou at the Music Box.
Colorful, subversive, and overall beguiling, Pierrot le Fou is arguably Jean-Luc Godard's quintessential work. Read Critics Reviews
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- Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Drama, Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Musical, Romance
- Synopsis
- Picture 9/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 6/10
- Closing
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 bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire, au courant politi...
The Criterion Collection re-issues Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fouon Blu-ray, yet again presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 on a dual-layer disc. It appears Criterion isn’t using the same master that was used for their previous edition and are instead using one created from a newer 2K film restoration, scanned from the origi...
The lossless PCM monaural presentation sounds the same as the old one, which is perfectly fine. The film’s music can come off pretty harsh, but dialogue sounds fine, if lacking fidelity. The track doesn’t show any severe signs of damage like pops or drops (music does drop, but it’s very much intentional), and background noise is minimal. It sounds ...
Criterion thankfully ports everything over from their previous Blu-ray and DVD editions for the film. I'll simply copy my comments from the review for the previous Blu-ray editionof the film: Criterion does also carry over the booklet and all of its contents, including Richard Brody's excellent essay on the film, a reprint of Andrew Sarris' origina...
The new presentation does look better than what was found on Criterion's old edition, managing the film's grain better, but it's probably not significant enough to warrant an upgrade if you already own the old one. BUY AT:
Jan 22, 2016 · “Pierrot le Fou” (“Crazy Pete”) is pivotal in Godard’s career. At the time of its release, he said that before making it he had grown pessimistic toward cinema, feeling that “there was ...
Feb 17, 2008 · Review: Pierrot le Fou. The film suggests the glamour of idealistic suicide, whereas Weekend embodies the residual rage of someone who couldn’t seal the deal. by Eric Henderson.
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Full Review | Oct 10, 2022. Keith Uhlich (All (Parentheses)) TOP CRITIC. Represents a high watermark of the art film, and in no small measure due to its despair over the artist’s ambivalent ...
