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Pierrot le fou (1965) was a Comedy - Crime Film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and produced by Georges de Beauregard.

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Pierrot le fou (1965) (2)

By Beatrice on Aug 14, 2018 From Flickers in Time

Pierrot le fou Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Written by Jean-Luc Godard 1965/France/Italy Films Georges de Bouregard/Rome Paris Productions/SNC/Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografia First viewing/Netflix rental One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die The good: ?Raoul Coutard’s glorious color ... Read full article


Pierrot Le Fou (1965) (1)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Feb 28, 2014 From 4 Star Films

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, this film is chock full of poetic musings, literary allusions, pop culture images, and so on. Belmondo is a Frenchman who is unhappy with his life and marriage. When a young woman he is already acquainted with comes to watc... Read full article


Pierrot Le Fou (1965) (3)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Feb 28, 2014 From 4 Star Films

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, this film is chock full of poetic musings, literary allusions, pop culture images, and so on. Belmondo is a Frenchman who is unhappy with his life and marriage. When a young woman he is already acquainted with comes to watc... Read full article


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Ferdinard: We'll just stop anywhere.
Marianne: And do what all day? No, let's find my brother. He'll give us tons of dough. Then we'll find ourselves a high-class hotel and have some fun!
Ferdinard: [breaking the fourth wall] All she thinks about is fun.
Marianne: Who are you talking to?
Ferdinard: The audience.
Marianne: Ah.


Ferdinard: You see? I was right
Marianne: What about?
Ferdinard: You didn't believe we'd always be in love.
Marianne: No. I didn't...
[singing]
Marianne: I never told you I'd love you all my life. Oh my love, you never swore to adore me all your life. We never made promises like that, knowing me knowing you. We never thought we ever would be caught by love fickle as we were. And yet, and yet, step by step, without a word between us, bit by bit, feelings slipped between our merry mingle bodies and words of love rose to our naked lips. Bit by bit lots of words of love began to mingle gently with our kisses. How many words of love? I never would have thought I'd always want you. Oh my love, we never would have thought we two could live together and not get bored. Wake up every morning and be just as surprised to be just as happy in the same bed, desire nothing more than that oh so banal pleasure of feeling so good to be together. And yet, and yet, step by step without a word between us, bit by bit our feelings bound us tight in spite of ourselves, bound us tight forever Feelings stronger than any words of love known or unknown. Feelings so wild and so strong. Feelings we never thought were possible before. Don't ever promise to adore me all your life. Let's not make promises like that knowing me knowing you. Let's keep the feeling that this love of ours, this love of ours, will be short and sweet.
[stops singing]
Ferdinard: Anyway, we'll know when we're dead... in 60 years... we'll know if we were always in love.
Marianne: That's not true, I know I love you, but I'm not sure about you.
Ferdinard: I do, Marianne, I do.
Marianne: Well, I'll know soon enough.


Ferdinard, Marianne: I can never have a real conversation with you. You never have ideas, only feelings. That's not true. There are ideas in feelings.


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Director Jean-Luc Godard allegedly shot the film without a script. See also Breathless.
Despite continual claims that Godard shot the majority of his films without scripts or preparation, actress Anna Karina has subsequently claimed that they were in fact very carefully planned out to the smallest of details, with an almost obsessive level of perfectionism.
Godard said of Pierrot Le Fou that "it is not really a film, it's an attempt at cinema. Life is the subject, with CinemaScope and color as its attributes...In short, life filling the screen as a tap fills bathtub that is simultaneously emptying at the same rate."
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