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Pierrot le Fou | 
| Director: Anna Karina Jean-paul Belmondo
Studio: Criterion Collection
Category: DVD
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 9434
Format: Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: CC1738DDVD
UPC: 715515027823
EAN: 0715515027823
ASIN: B000ZM1MIM
Theatrical Release Date: January 8, 1969
Release Date: February 19, 2008
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Amazon.com Essential Video
Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a man who has married for money and is terribly disillusioned with his life. When forced to go to a dinner party he does not want to attend, he throws a temper tantrum and returns home early. When driving Marianne (Anna Karina), the babysitter, back home, they fall in love and decide to run away from Paris. They embark on a series of escapades that begins with running illegal arms for extra cash and runs the gamut: love, death, ennui, boat chases, murder, betrayal, revenge, lost cash, and almost anything else you can think of, and all with a sense of reality that is an interesting contrast to the typical American film. Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Alphaville) blends different genres with great success and achieves moments of cinematic poetry in this quasi-epic of modern malaise. Also a cameo by the Hollywood director Samuel Fuller is something to watch for. Be aware that Godard is for people seriously interested in cinematic art. --James McGrath
Chronique amazon.fr
Du pur Godard, d'une beauté à couper le souffle : une intrigue policière qui se désintègre d'une image à l'autre, des collages d'éléments divers et disparates, des digressions littéraires, le tout dans un splendide univers sonore et esthétique que l'on doit à Antoine Duhamel et Raoul Coutard. Au-delà des recherches formelles du cinéaste se cache une bouleversante histoire d'amour, à faire pleurer toutes les larmes de son corps. Jean-Paul Belmondo est déchirant dans le rôle de Léopold, personnage romantique amateur d'absolu, qui aura tout donné et presque rien reçu. Face à lui, Anna Karina, dans le rôle de Marianne Renoir – hommage à la peinture et au cinéma – s'impose, toute d'instinct, de nature et de beauté. Jamais – si ce n'est dans Le Mépris – Jean-Luc Godard n'a été aussi original et sincère que dans cette brûlante fuite en avant d'un couple au bord de l'explosion, que dans cet hymne à l'amour fou. Indispensable. --Sylvain Lefort
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O Criterion Where Are You February 5, 2004
C. Rubin (San Leandro, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a five-star movie with a deduction for the DVD release. It may be that this movie will never look or sound that good technicallly, but a restoration would surely help. Even if Fox Lorber gave us only a commentary track, I would give the extra rating star; this is a bare-bones production effort of a movie that deserves the red-carpet treatment.
 Funny, Tragic, Mystic : Pierrot le Fou c'est moi November 13, 2003
Doug Anderson (Miami Beach, Florida United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What I love about the two Godard/Belmondo films (Breathless & Pierrot Le Fou) is the marriage of the sacred and profane, the comic and the tragic, the high and the low. Only true masters achieve a world view that encompasses so much of life. Pierrot Le Fou is to the late sixties what Breathless was to the early sixties. If Breathless contains just the rumblings of unrest then Pierrot Le Fou is an open revolt. In Breathless Belmondo played at being Bogart and he and Jean Seberg just played at being alive. Breathless was Godard's homage to gangster films and American spontaneity, compared to Pierrot Le Fou however it was a very tamely structured film. In Pierrot Le Fou all semblance of structure is destroyed; Godard picks up and discards genres as quickly as Belmondo picks up and discards books. Godard and Belmondo make a perfect team; Godard is the overly intellectual auteur and Belmondo the oafish clownish ham but together they seem to comprise one complete individual--one behind the camera and one in front of it. Anna Karina is perfect just being Anna Karina. She doesn't have to do much but be her charming and pretty self--everything seems to come too easy for her and so she is always bored and in need of change. On one level the film traces a love story from its inception to its demise but on another level its about how pervasive consumer culture has become. Consumerism affects every aspect of these characters lives. Belmondo consumes culture-- he reads books at an alarming rate, and he needs a constant supply of new books to keep him happy. And Karina consumes lovers--the first time we see her there is an unidentified male corpse in her room(an old lover that she has grown bored with and disposed of). Eventually she will dispose of Belmondo too. Its a very funny film in parts and a very sad film in other parts and even a bit mystical toward the end. Its a poignant elegy for the brevity of all things. In the end once all the antics and activity have ceased and the play acting at love and at being gangsters has lost its ability to entertain, Belmondo and Karina confront the emptiness that is always at the heart of life and its then that we realize how important all that play acting really was. But Godard finds beauty even in emptiness and the ending of this film has an eerie and mystic grace to it--two dead lovers talking to each other about how only death can truly bring them together. Pierrot Le Fou is one of the most satisfying of Godards films--it entertains more consistently than any of his other films and it also presents the Godard vision in full.
Another Take on the DVD Edition March 26, 2003
mackjay (Cambridge, MA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you have only seen PIERROT on VHS/Pan & Scan, the letterboxed version here is automatically welcome. In terms of picture quality, it just may be possible that this is how the film was meant to look: a little rough in spots and with a few idiosyncrasies in the sound. Godard's film is deliberately self-aware as a 'put-together' work and is probably not meant to be conventionally beautiful. Nonetheless, several sequences are striking and aethetically pleasing.Since the packaging currently available is different from a previous DVD incarnation, could it be possible that the disc represents a newer, improved mastering? This is suggested only because to this viewer, the film looks mostly terrific. The sound is another story: mastered at a low-level, it does not come across as well as might be expected. As for the walkie-talkie scenes, they are surely meant to sound the way they do. 4 stars as a rating, because there are no trailers or extras worth mentioning. An acceptable, if not ideal, DVD of a one-of-a-kind film experience
 Brilliant film - terrible transfer January 21, 2003
Karen M Martinez (London United Kingdom)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great movie, probably Godard's best. But I'm afraid that the transfer to DVD by Fox Lorber is very poor. It's got a very soft, almost pixillated look with a lot of strobing on panning shots. At the cinema, Pierrot le Fou is one of the most colourful, vibrant films ever , but this DVD has a sad washed-out, de-saturated, dirty look and the sound level is also very low. All in all, it's a great shame that one of the classics of modern cinema has been treated with such a lack of care... I would recommend that you wait for a decent label to release this film properly. I have to say that it's made me wary of all titles on Fox Lorber now.
forever magic December 18, 2002
Mohit Garg (India)
I tell you one thing- either you'll love godard or you'll hate him. This was the first movie I saw of Godard without knowing anything about French Cinema. And I fell in love with it just after 15 minutes of watching. I am a big Godard fan now.
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