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PIERROT LE FOU at the Venice Film Festival, 1965

Pierrot le fou • 4m 8s

PIERROT LE FOU premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion. During the event, director Jean-Luc Godard and actor Anna Karina were interviewed by Maurice Seveno and Christian Durieux for a French TV news segment on the festival that originally aired on September 2, 1965. Excerpts from the segment are presented here.

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