Container of (work): Pierrot le fou (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from sell sheet. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina. Originally released as a motion picture in 1965. Special edition features: Interview with actor Anna Karina from 2007; A "Pierrot" primer, a video essay from 2007 written and narrated by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; Godard, l'amour, la poésie, a fifty-minute French documentary from 2007, directed by Luc Lagier, about director Jean-Luc Godard and his work and marriage with Karina; excerpts of interviews from 1965 with Godard, Karina, and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo; trailer; An essay by critic Richard Brody, along with a 1969 review by Andrew Sarris and a 1965 interview with Godard.
Summary:
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anti-consumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent tale of a romantic couple. This is a high point of the French New Wave, and was Godard's last frolic before he moved further into radical cinema.
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