SYNOPSIS: Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeoisie behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard’s tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, “the last romantic couple.” With blissful color imagery by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their most animated, Pierrot le fou is one of the high points of the French New Wave, and was Godard’s last frolic before he moved ever further into radical cinema.
| Ferdinand Griffon | Jean-Paul Belmondo |
| Marianne Renoir | Anna Karina |
| Mrs. Griffon | Graziella Galvani |
| Fred | Dirk Sanders |
| Man on pier | Raymond Devos |
| Gangster | Roger Dutoit |
| Gangster | Hans Meyer |
| Screenplay | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Producer | Georges de Beauregard |
| Director | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
By February 18, 2008
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July 23, 2010
Hey, Brooklyn: Unnameable Books in Prospect Heights is kicking off a new kind of book party tonight with a screening of Godard’s A Married Woman accompanied Read more »
April 21, 2010
Alert all French New Wave–loving Californians: Anna Karina is coming to Los Angeles! The annual L.A. festival of new French cinema, City of Lights, City of Angels, going Read more »
January 14, 2010
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has bestowed its annual career achievement award on French New Wave icon Jean-Paul Belmondo. The ceremony will be held on Saturday Read more »
