Pierrot Le Fou

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Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard fell in love with actress Anna Karina while they were working together on Le Petit Soldat and they were married in 1961; they made seven film together before they parted ways in 1966, and Pierrot le Fou would prove to be their final collaboration, made while their divorce was becoming final. The Criterion Collection's DVD release of Pierrot le Fou is once a superb rendition of one of Godard's signature films of the Sixties and a fascinating appraisal of the working relationship between ...
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Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard fell in love with actress Anna Karina while they were working together on Le Petit Soldat and they were married in 1961; they made seven film together before they parted ways in 1966, and Pierrot le Fou would prove to be their final collaboration, made while their divorce was becoming final. The Criterion Collection's DVD release of Pierrot le Fou is once a superb rendition of one of Godard's signature films of the Sixties and a fascinating appraisal of the working relationship between the trailblazing auteur and the actress who was also his partner and muse. Pierrot le Fou has been transferred to disc in the widescreen aspect ratio of 2.35:1, letterboxed on conventional televisions and enhanced for anamorphic playback on 16x9 monitors. The transfer was supervised by the film's cinematographer, Raoul Coutard, and is truly superb; the film's realistic but vivid color balance (especially the striking use of red) is captured with powerful accuracy, and the images are sharp and richly detailed throughout. The audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Mono, and the sound is reproduced with transparent clarity. The dialogue is in French, with optional English subtitles. A second disc included with this package is devoted to supplemental materials, including a new interview with Anna Karina, in which she talks about her working relationship with Godard and the making of Pierrot le Fou. Also featured is Godard, L'amour, la Poesie, a documentary on Godard and Karina's relationship and how it was reflected in their work on screen; A Pierrot Primer, an entertaining but exhaustive semiotic examination of the movie by Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin; television interviews shot during the production of Pierrot le Fou with Godard, Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo; and the original theatrical trailer for the film. The discs have been packaged with a beautiful full-color booklet including an original essay by Richard Brody, a review of Pierrot le Fou by Andrew Sarris, and a 1965 interview with Godard from Cashiers du Cinema. With Wellspring's 1998 DVD release of Pierrot le Fou out of print, a quality edition of this film would be more than welcome, but Criterion have gone above and beyond to not only present the film in superb quality but have used it as a springboard for an examination of a crucial portion of Jean-Luc Godard's career, and it's a splendid experience for serious film enthusiasts.
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Special Features

Disc 1:; New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by cinematographer Raoul Coutard; New and improved English subtitle translation; Disc 2:; New video interview with actor Anna Karina; A "Pierot" Primer, a new video program with audio commentary by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; Godard, L'amour, La Poésie, a fifty-minute documentary, by Luc Lugier, about Jean-Luc Godard and his life and films with Karina; Archival interview excerpts with Godard, Karina, and actor Jean-Paul Melmondo; Theatrical trailer; Plus: a booklet featuring a new essay by critic Richard Brody, a 1969 review by Andrew Sarris and a 1965 interview with Godard
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Editorial Reviews

Barnes & Noble - Steve Futterman
Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou is many things -- none of which you can quite put your finger on. A giddy thriller, a political polemic masquerading as a musical, a love story that’s also a discourse on art; this 1965 masterpiece finds its fabled director just about to ford the stream to where radical politics, and equally radical film form, take precedence over relative accessibility. Not that Pierrot hand-holds the viewer. As was his manner in the first near-decade of his career, Godard indulges freely in the elliptical, the outrageously cartoonish, and the didactic, breaking the illusionary Fourth Wall with impunity. Plot becomes secondary to the disparate musings of the director as voiced by his filmic counterparts, the glorious duo of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, Godard’s wife at the time. Saturated in bombastically beautiful color by way of Raoul Coutard’s eye-popping cinematography, Pierrot, and the following year’s Masculin/Feminine, cap off an audacious run of signature Godard works that commenced with the big bang of Breathless in 1959. Very much of its time -- critical jabs at the Vietnam War and American cultural and economic imperialism run rampant throughout -- Pierrot is simultaneously an irreverent, riotously funny critique of bourgeois life and an elemental, poignant account of a relationship running into the ground. No wonder Godard’s early work remains the template for contemporary directors who still gaze in wonder at how effortlessly he kept so many balls in the air at once, all the while giving the appearance that he was improvising the whole shoot on the fly. Admire Tarantino and his ilk all you will, but never overlook the daddy of them all.
All Movie Guide - Lucia Bozzola
Based on Lionel White's novel Obsession, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou (1965) transforms a story about a couple on the run into an existential romance and an essay on the possibilities of film. With no script, Jean-Paul Belmondo's and Anna Karina's flight to southern France becomes a spontaneous series of incidents that reflect on romance, aesthetics, story-telling, and art as an antidote to alienation. Equating men with the intellect and women with the body, and using the widescreen frame to emphasize the couple's psychic division, Godard unites them in romantic moments and musical numbers, but these gestures cannot prevent their final, explosive separation. Stylized colors and compositions celebrate art for art's sake (even though the colors also carry potential meaning), as in the repetition of the couple's response to a murder in three different shooting styles. Allusions to other films, the brief appearance of Hollywood tough-guy director Samuel Fuller, and references to writers, writing, and painters all emphasize Godard's concern with the meaning of cinema and art, and their place in life. Though not as popular as its predecessor Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou won the Critics' Prize at the 1965 Venice Film Festival, and it was a key precursor to his most radical 1960s film, Weekend (1968).
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 2/19/2008
  • UPC: 715515027823
  • Original Release: 1965

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  • Source: Criterion
  • Region Code: 1
  • Time: 1:50:00
  • Format: DVD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Jean-Paul Belmondo Ferdinand Griffon, "Pierrot"
Anna Karina Marianne, Marianne Ronoir
Dirk Sanders Fred, Marianne's Brother
Raymond Devos Man on the Pier
Graziella Galvani Ferdinand's Wife
Roger Dutoit Gangster
Princess Aicha Abidir Herself
Pascal Aubier 2nd Brother
Samuel Fuller Himself
Pierre Hanin 3rd Brother
Jimmy Karoubi Dwarf
Jean-Pierre Léaud Young Man in Movie Theatre
Hans Meyer Gangster
Krista Nell Mme. Staquet
Alexis Poliakoff Sailor
Laszlo Szabo Political Exile from Santo Domingo
Technical Credits
Jean-Luc Godard Director, Screenwriter
Boris Bassiak Songwriter
Francoise Collin Editor
Raoul Coutard Cinematographer
Georges de Beauregard Producer
Antoine Duhamel Score Composer
Pierre Guffroy Art Director
Jean-Pierre Léaud Asst. Director
René Levert Sound/Sound Designer
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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Pierrot Le Fou
1. Ferdinand [5:39]
2. Cocktail Party [4:45]
3. Marianne Renoir [4:43]
4. Breakfast in Bed [4:07]
5. "A Story, All Mixed Up" [3:14]
6. Laurel and Hardy [4:15]
7. Stories and Accidents [5:14]
8. Crossing France [2:25]
9. '62 Ford Galaxie [6:20]
10. Riviera [3:50]
11. Perfect Happiness [6:57]
12. Sick of It [4:24]
13. Play for the Americans [:27]
14. "My Fate Line" [2:29]
15. Small World [5:38]
16. Call From Marianne [4:20]
17. Despair [6:57]
18. The Princess and the Pierrot [3:41]
19. Going to Meet Fred [5:42]
20. Crazy Setup [4:51]
21. "Do You Love Me?" [7:18]
22. Eternity [5:54]
23. Color Bars [6:51]
Disc #2 -- Pierrot Le Fou
1. "Like a Gift" [1:51]
2. "We Knew What He Wanted" [4:46]
3. Singing in Films [2:39]
4. Big Cheese and Bowling [3:06]
5. A Modern Film [1:24]
1. "A, B, and C of It" [1:10]
2. Quotes [2:49]
3. Conjugation [2:05]
4. Godardian Cool [2:08]
5. Exposition and Graphics [2:19]
6. Classicism [2:20]
7. The Pierrot Machine [2:50]
8. "An Impossible Scene" [2:51]
9. Punctuation [2:02]
10. Voodoo of Childhood [1:43]
11. Musical Design [2:01]
12. Time Suspended [5:57]
13. Homage to Anna Karina [2:58]
14. "Expect the Unexpected" [2:15]
1. Godard Before Karina [8:53]
2. Anna [1:40]
3. Le Petit Soldat [9:04]
4. A Woman Is a Woman [4:58]
5. My Life to Live [8:17]
6. Contempt [7:17]
7. Alphaville [3:58]
8. Pierrot Le Fou [8:44]
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Menu

Disc #1 -- Pierrot Le Fou
   Play the Movie
   Chapters
   Subtitles
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Disc #2 -- Pierrot Le Fou
   Anna Karina
      Play
      Index
   A Pierrot Primer
      Play
      Index
   Belmondo in the Wind
      Play
   Venice Film Festival, 1965
      Play
   Godard, L'amour, La Poésie
      Play
      Index
   Trailer
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