“The Americans,” Jean-Luc Godard said in an interview at the time of his 1965 film Pierrot Le Fou, “know how to tell stories very well; the French, not at all. Flaubert and Proust don’t know how to ...

A WRITER from Paris in the Atlantic Monthly a while ago lamented upon the scarcity of exceptional literary talent in France today, and suggested that this talent has been channeled into film. Jean-Luc ...

Editor’s note: A newly restored version of “Pierrot le Fou” opens Friday at the Cinefamily. Below is the 2007 review of its last Los Angeles reissue. Jean-Luc Godard’s films have always reflected the ...

Pierrot le fou (1965) is, unignorably, one of Jean-Luc Godard’s goofiest movies. Just as Jean-Paul Belmondo’s character’s name freely alternates between his real one, Ferdinand, and that of the film’s ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Pierrot le Fou is an American film noir, shot in the sunny countryside of Renoir, re-edited by a Soviet montage maniac and then ...

Viewed again in this restored version, Godard's lovingly remembered Pierrot le Fou now looks more like an essay on estrangement than a gorgeous romance. It is very freely adapted from Lionel White's ...

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

PIERROT LE FOU written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. 110 minutes. Subtitled. Thursday (July 26), Saturday (July 28) and August 2 at Cinematheque. For ...

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.