Pierrot le Fou: The Criterion Collection

DVD - APPROX. 102 MINS. - 1965 - US Rating: NR

Main feature:

Release Feb 19, 2008
Video Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audio French: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1965
Genre Drama, Adventure, Comedy

Special features:

  • New video interview with actor Anna Karina
  • A Pierrot Primer, a new video program w/ audio commentary
  • Godard, l'amour, la poesie, a 50 min. French doc about director Jean-Luc Godard
  • Archival interview excerpts w/ director Jean-Luc Godard, and more
  • Theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Richard Brody, and more

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 one last frolic before Godard moved ever further into radical cinema.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Anna KarinaJean-Paul Belmondo"Pierrot le Fou: The Criterion Collection"
Written by Jean-Luc Godardproduced byDino De Laurentiis
produced byGeorges De Beauregard
directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Production Year: 1965

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