Pierrot le Fou [Criterion Collection]

Pierrot le Fou [Criterion Collection]

Pierrot le Fou [Criterion Collection]

Pierrot le Fou [Criterion Collection]

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Overview

Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Karina). They meet when Ferdinand's wife hires Marianne as a baby-sitter. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to run away with her. The couple get caught up in a mysterious gun-running scheme involving Marianne's brother (Dirk Sanders). With Pierrot le fou Godard returns to the story of A bout de souffle (Breathless): the tale of a couple on the run. But in the six years between the two films Godard developed a more complex and often difficult style. Pierrot le fou incorporates musical numbers, references to the history of cinema and painting, and quotations from literature. The film features Godard's most extended use of color to that point, as the shots are filled with blocks of bright primary colors. Pierrot le fou is a catalogue of cinematic inventions and of gestures made by couples in love.

Product Details

Release Date: 10/06/2020
UPC: 0715515241212
Original Release: 1965
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language: English
Time: 1:50:00
Sales rank: 16,690

Special Features

New 2k digital restoration; Interview from 2007 with actor Anna Karina; A "Pierrot" Primer, a video essay from 2007 written and narrrated by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; Godard, l'amour, la poesie, a fifty-minute 2007 French documentary by Luc Lagier, about Director Jean-Luc Godard and his work with and marriage to Karina; Excerpts of interviews from 1965 with Godard, Karina, and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo; Trailer; Plus: An essay by critic Richard Brody

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Jean-Paul Belmondo Ferdinand
Anna Karina Marianne
Dirk Sanders Fred,Actor
Raymond Devos Port Man
Graziella Galvani Wife
Roger Dutoit Le gangster
Hans Meyer Gangster
Jimmy Karoubi Dwarf
Krista Nell Mme. Staquet
Pascal Aubier 2nd Brother
Pierre Hanin 3rd Brother
Princess Aicha Abidir Herself
Samuel Fuller Himself
Alexis Poliakoff Sailor
Georges Staquet Franck
Dominique Zardi un pompiste
Maurice Auzel Le troisième pompiste
Jean-Pierre Léaud Le jeune homme au cinéma
László Szabó L'exilé politique
Aicha Abadir Actor
Henri Attal Actor
Antoine Duhamel Composer

Technical Credits
Jean-Luc Godard Director,Screenwriter
Georges de Beauregard Producer,Director
Dino De Laurentiis Producer,Director
Rémo Forlani Screenwriter
Antoine Bonfanti Sound Effects
René Levert Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Lionel White Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Pierrot le Fou - The Film
255. Chapters
1. Ferdinand [5:32]
2. Cocktail Party [4:44]
3. Marianne Renoir [4:43]
4. Breakfast In Bed [4:08]
5. "A Story, All Mixed Up" [3:16]
6. Laurel and Hardy [4:14]
7. Stories and Accidents [5:13]
8. Crossing France [2:26]
9. '62 Ford Galaxie [6:20]
10. Riviera [3:50]
11. Perfect Happiness [6:57]
12. Sick Of It [4:52]
13. Play For The Americans [2:12]
14. "My Fate Line" [:17]
15. Small World [5:39]
16. Call From Marianne [4:19]
17. Despair [6:57]
18. The Princess and Pierrot [3:40]
19. Going To Meet Fred [5:41]
20. Crazy Setup [4:51]
21. "Do You Love Me?" [7:18]
22. Eternity [5:54]
1. Color Bars [7:31]
Disc #2 -- Pierrot le Fou - The Supplements
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 [3:07]
5. A Modern Film [1:52]
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" [2:41]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [9:21]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [3:58]
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. Vivre Sa Vie [8:17]
6. Contempt [7:17]
7. Alphaville [3:58]
8. Pierrot Fe Fou [8:45]
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