Pierrot le fou (1965) is, unignorably, one of Jean-Luc Godard’s goofiest movies. Just as Jean-Paul Belmondo’s character’s name freely alternates between his real one, Ferdinand, and that of the film’s ...
“The Americans,” Jean-Luc Godard said in an interview at the time of his 1965 film Pierrot Le Fou, “know how to tell stories very well; the French, not at all. Flaubert and Proust don’t know how to ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Every time I review a film by Jean-Luc Godard, I receive outraged letters from readers who hated it. It is suggested that my reviews and myself join Godard ...
Editor’s note: A newly restored version of “Pierrot le Fou” opens Friday at the Cinefamily. Below is the 2007 review of its last Los Angeles reissue. Jean-Luc Godard’s films have always reflected the ...
For the second time in recent memory, a Jean-Luc Godard film has inspired the annual Cannes Film Festival poster — this year with an image from his 1965 crime/romance pic Pierrot Le Fou. It’s a ...
Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Made in 1965, but not appearing on U.S. screens till 1969, Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou is a film that’s as maddening as you ...
We're now less than a month away from the 71 Cannes Film Festival kicking off, so the festival has revealed their official poster art. I have a tradition of always writing about this here, because ...
A WRITER from Paris in the Atlantic Monthly a while ago lamented upon the scarcity of exceptional literary talent in France today, and suggested that this talent has been channeled into film. Jean-Luc ...
Insider jokes, the use of objects to comment on a situation, and a mingling of the serious and comic - Jean-Luc Godard uses all of these devices here but the result is repetitive and precious rather ...
An immaculately restored print of Godard's Pierrot Le Fou is getting extended play at the BFI as part of their French New Wave season. Rating: * * * * * Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina in Godard's ...