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Pierrot le fou
Screening: Monday 10 April, 6:30pm
France/Italy
1965
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Production co: Rome-Paris Films, Dino De Laurentis Cinematografica
Producers: Georges de Beauregard
Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard. Based on the novel Obsession by Lionel White
Cinematography: Raoul Coutard
Editor: Franoise Colin
Sound: Ren Levert
Music: Antoine Duhamel
Ferdinand: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Marianne: Anna Karina
Marianne's brother: Dirk Sanders
Man on the pier: Raymond Devos
Ferdinand's wife: Graziella Galvani
Gangsters: Roger Dutoit, Hans Meyer
Dwarf: Jimmy Karoubi
Mme Staquet: Christa Nell
Brothers: Pascal Aubier. Pierre Hanin
Himself: Samuel Fuller
Young man in cinema: Jean-Pierre Laud
In French with English subtitles
110 mins
35mm (2.35:1)
R18 cert
ADMISSION STRICTLY MEMBERS ONLY
'Put a tiger in my tank' says Belmondo to an outraged Esso pump attendant... and the voyage begins. Pierrot le Fou was a turning-point in Godard's career, the film in which he tried to do everything (and almost succeeded). It's the tragic tale of a last romantic couple fleeing Paris for the South of France. But then again it's a painting by Velazquez (says Godard); or the story of a bourgeois hubby eloping with the babysitter; a musical under the high-summer pine trees; or a gangster story (with Karina the moll and Belmondo the sucker). She was never more cautious about her love; he was never more drily self-aware; and the film agonises for two hours over a relationship that is equal parts nonsense and despair. - Chris Auty, Time Out Film Guide
Pierrot le Fou was a turning-point in Godard's career, the film in which he tried to do everything (and almost succeeded). It's the tragic tale of a last romantic couple fleeing Paris for the South of France. But then again it's a painting by Velazquez (says Godard); or the story of a bourgeois hubby eloping with the babysitter; a musical under the high-summer pine trees; or a gangster story (with Karina the moll and Belmondo the sucker). - Chris Auty, Time Out Film Guide
Pierrot le fou is arguably one of the few Godard pictures to have the desired balance of romance, adventure, violence, and humor on one side, and philosophy, literary and cinematic allusion, and Brechtian distancing on the other. - TV Guide
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