Pierrot le Fou

Anonymous

at 7:10 am

One of the great movies of the 1960s, a man abandons his bourgeois life for a beautiful girl he refuses to understand who therefore destroys him. With incidental excursions into crime, terrorism, the betrayal of Adam by Eve, philosophy and its meaninglessness, the impracticality of intellectuals, and much humour. Sometimes described as a romance, but equally well experienced as satirical. Make up your own mind…..
Rating: 4 / 5

Cakeman

at 12:02 pm

Godard given a bigger budget and enjoying himself. The summery saturated colours haunt the mind forever after. As too does Belmondo playing the sap given the run around who is simply mesmeric – the French Steve McQueen but, dare I say this, even more laid back. Great pace, silly, absurd, lush, lovely and comparatively accessible, a real joy.
Rating: 5 / 5

technoguy

at 3:29 pm

It’s a postcard of post-modern obsessions depicting a world of transient feelings evoked by youth to nature, love, art,gangster films,literature,advertising,politics,philosophy and poetry. Marianne and Ferdinand are on the run towards the sun, sea and sands of the south of France.There is no plot, there is image and sensation, singing and spontaneity.Jean luc carries his camera like a gun and shoots the changing scenes wherever the two lead him. Beautiful primary colours and CINEMASCOPE with Brechtian deconstruction, actors addressing the camera or completing each others sentences or breaking into song and dance or quoting from old movies.The plot is silly and the characters do not develop.There are elements of Breathless and Le Mepris. If Rimbaud had used a camera instead of verse this may have been a creation of his.Godard is very much the punk revolutionary mocking the movies while he’s paying them homage. There is an extraordinary freshness and vitality and topicality, attacking the Vietnam and Algerian war. Marianne describes her feelings about the loss of’115 guerillas’whom we are told nothing about. Anna Karenin is like the gangsters moll and the femme fatale,chased by Algerian gun-runners after the money and guns.Belmondo playing the double roll of Ferdinand/Pierre Le Fou will kill her and her lover, Fred, then blow up himself. Then their dialogue continues in death:`Eternity?No,it’s just the sun and sea.’ A quotation from Rimbaud’s’L’Eternite’

Rating: 4 / 5