Sight & Sound Poll 2012: Pierrot le fou
August 24, 2012
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 |
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