Pierrot Le Fou - Movie Review

Rating: 3 out of 5

Perhaps the greatest entry into the theater of the absurd, Godard's Pierrot le fou starts out as ridiculous and gets progressively sillier. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as a family man named Ferdinand, who up and quits his family man life to jet through France with a mobstress (Anna Karina), who inexplicably calls him Pierrot. Their adventure through strangely tinted sets and with occasional dialogue drawn from TV commercials. Totally bizarre and ultimately without much point -- Godard's message about commercialism is drowned in a sea of oddity.

Facts and Figures

Year: 1965

Run time: 110 mins

In Theaters: Wednesday 8th January 1969

Distributed by: Janus Films

Production compaines: Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica

Reviews

Contactmusic.com: 3 / 5

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
Fresh: 34 Rotten: 6

IMDB: 7.8 / 10

Cast & Crew

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Producer: Georges de Beauregard

Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ferdinand-Pierrot, Anna Karina as Marianne, Graziella Galvani as Maria, la femme de Ferdinand, Dirk Sanders as Fred, Jimmy Karoubi as le chef des gangsters, Roger Dutoit as Gangster, Hans Meyer as Gangster, Samuel Fuller as Lui-Même, Aicha Abadir as Marin, Raymond Devos as l'homme du port, Jean-Pierre Léaud as un Spectateur, Georges Staquet as Staquet, Henri Attal as Le pompiste, Dominique Zardi as Le pompiste, Pierre Hanin as lazlo kovacs, László Szabó as Lazlo Kovacs

Also starring: Georges de Beauregard, Jean-Luc Godard