Pierrot le Fou [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Pierrot le Fou [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo
, Anna Karina
Anna Karina
, Aicha Abadir
Aicha Abadir
, Henri Attal
Henri Attal
Jean-Luc Godard
Pierrot le Fou [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Pierrot le Fou [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo
, Anna Karina
Anna Karina
, Aicha Abadir
Aicha Abadir
, Henri Attal
Henri Attal
Jean-Luc Godard

Blu-ray (Color)

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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: 0715515241113
Original Release: 1965
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Language: English
Time: 1:50:00
Sales rank: 8,945

Special Features

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Interview from 2007 with actor Anna Karina; A "Pierrot" Primer, a video essay from 2007 written and narrated 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, a 1969 review by Andrew Sarris, and a 1965 interview with Godard

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Jean-Paul Belmondo Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'
Anna Karina Marianne Renoir
Aicha Abadir Aicha Abadir
Henri Attal Le Premier Pompiste
Pascal Aubier Le Deuxième Frère
Maurice Auzel Le Troisième Pompiste
Raymond Devos L'Homme du Port
Roger Dutoit Le Gangster
Samuel Fuller Samuel Fuller
Pierre Hanin Le Troisième Frère
Jimmy Karoubi Le Nain
Jean-Pierre Léaud Le Jeune Homme au Cinéma
Hans Meyer Un Gangster
Krista Nell Madame Staquet
Dirk Sanders Fred, le Frère de Marianne
László Szabó L'Exilé Politique
Dominique Zardi Le Deuxième Pompiste
Antoine Duhamel Composer

Technical Credits
Jean-Luc Godard Director
Rémo Forlani Screenwriter
Dino De Laurentiis Producer
Georges de Beauregard Producer
René Levert Sound/Sound Designer
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