Pierrot le fou
Pierrot le fou
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1h 50m
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1965 • France
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
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: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard’s tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire, au courant 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 (“Crazy Pierrot”) 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.
Up Next in Pierrot le fou
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PIERROT LE FOU Edition Intro
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Anna Karina on PIERROT LE FOU
In this interview, recorded at the Brasserie Lipp in Paris in 2007, celebrated actor Anna Karina recalls working with her former husband, director Jean-Luc Godard, and her role as PIERROT LE FOU’s Marianne Renoir.
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A PIERROT Primer
The following program, with commentary by filmmaker and educator Jean-Pierre Gorin (TOUT VA BIEN, LETTER TO JANE, MY CRASY LIFE), presents an introduction to PIERROT LE FOU.
