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Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Karina). They meet when Ferdinand's wife hires Marianne as a baby-sitter. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to run away with her. The ...more
Year: 1965 | Running Time: 110 minutes
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$30.99CRITERION COLLECTION: PIERROT LE FOU / (WS)
Based on Lionel White's novel -Obsession, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou (1965) transforms a story about a couple on the run into an existential romance and an essay on the possibilities of film. With no script, Jean-Paul Belmondo's and Anna Karina's flight to southern France becomes a spontaneous series of incidents that reflect on romance, aesthetics, story-telling, and art as an antidote to alienation. Equating men with the intellect and women with the body, and using the widescreen frame ...more
- Jean-Paul Belmondo - Ferdinand Griffon, "Pierrot"
- Anna Karina - Marianne
- Dirk Sanders - Fred, Marianne's Brother
- Raymond Devos - Man on the Pier
- Graziella Galvani - Ferdinand's Wife
- Princess Aicha Abidir - Herself
- Jimmy Karoubi - Dwarf
- Hans Meyer - Gangster
- Laszlo Szabo - Political Exile from Santo Domingo
- Alexis Poliakoff - Sailor
- Samuel Fuller - Himself
- Pascal Aubier - 2nd Brother
- Krista Nell - Mme. Staquet
- Jean-Pierre Léaud - Young Man in Movie Theatre
- Jean-Luc Godard - Director
- Georges de Beauregard - Producer
- Jean-Luc Godard - Screenwriter
- Lionel White - Book Author
- Pierre Guffroy - Art Director
- Jean-Pierre Léaud - First Assistant Director
- Francoise Collin - Editor
- Antoine Duhamel - Composer (Music Score)
- Boris Bassiak - Songwriter
- Raoul Coutard - Cinematographer
- René Levert - Sound/Sound Designer
- Antonio Vivaldi - Featured Music
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