Pierrot le Fou - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre L?aud, Samuel FullerBrand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard
Composer: Antoine Duhamel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of Pierrot le Fou - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: The Laurel and Hardy bit works everytime....
Summary: 5 Stars
There is something about this film that just pulls at your heartstrings. It is a difficult film to watch, not just via the subject matter (couple on the lam, stealing from everyone, bored relationship), but also the non-linear storytelling that Jean-Luc Godard uses. Yet it is this difficulty that makes Pierrot le fou more than just your average French New Wave film. There are vibrant colors, pop culture references (one of my favorite moments - the Laurel and Hardy bit perfectly placed at the gas station), philosophy, revenge, betrayal, and everything that you would want from a feature film put, should I say, artistically on the screen - and beautifully transferred by the infamous Criterion collection.
This probably isn't a film for everyone, and even I was hesitant when one of my voracious Criterion watchers said that they couldn't get through it. So I was suspicious, but Godard's work pulled me in, kept me seated, and pushed the limits for what I thought were cinematically possible. The individual scenes that he set up were brilliant. One that stands out especially is the burning of the first get-away car. The one strand of what could be a bridge with another car looking as if it just fell off that missing road. Amazing. I had to rewind just to watch that moment again. Wow.
I also loved the way that Godard uses the infamous film 4th plane. This is where he takes us away from the world that he is creating and has our characters speak directly to the camera. It keeps us focused and familiar with our actors. His use of this as well as our other senses, like sight (beautiful cinematography) and sound - we loose the radio when the car turns off - used poignantly for dramatic effect. The picture used to help me remind myself of this film speaks all on its own. Foreshadowing, 4th plane, intensity. It is all there.
Not much can be said for the acting, it was great - but it was the other elements pulled together that made Pierrot le fou work.
Summary of Pierrot le Fou - Criterion Collection
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 one last frolic before Godard moved ever further into radical cinemaSpecial Features
* - SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
* - New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by cinematographer Raoul Coutard
* - New video interview with actor Anna Karina
* - A "Pierrot" Primer, a new video program with audio commentary by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
* - Godard, l'amour, la po?sie, a fifty-minute French documentary about director Jean-Luc Godard and his work and marriage with Karina
* - Archival interview excerpts with Godard, Karina, and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo
* - Theatrical trailer
* - New and improved English subtitle translation
* - PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Richard Brody, a 1969 review by Andrew Sarris, and a 1965 interview with Godard
Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a man who has married for money and is terribly disillusioned with his life. When forced to go to a dinner party he does not want to attend, he throws a temper tantrum and returns home early. When driving Marianne (Anna Karina), the babysitter, back home, they fall in love and decide to run away from Paris. They embark on a series of escapades that begins with running illegal arms for extra cash and runs the gamut: love, death, ennui, boat chases, murder, betrayal, revenge, lost cash, and almost anything else you can think of, and all with a sense of reality that is an interesting contrast to the typical American film. Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Alphaville) blends different genres with great success and achieves moments of cinematic poetry in this quasi-epic of modern malaise. Also a cameo by the Hollywood director Samuel Fuller is something to watch for. Be aware that Godard is for people seriously interested in cinematic art. --James McGrath
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