Directed by:
Jean-Luc GodardCinematography:
Raoul CoutardComposer:
Antoine DuhamelCast:
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Samuel Fuller, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Pascal Aubier, Raymond Devos, Krista Nell, Hans Meyer, Dominique Zardi, Henri Attal (more)Plots(1)
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 bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, “the last romantic couple.” With blissful color imagery by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their most animated, Pierrot le fou is one of the high points of the French New Wave, and was Godard’s last frolic before he moved ever further into radical cinema. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo
France
Best movies:
Animal (1977)
The Man from Acapulco (1973)
The Professional (1981)
Anna Karina
Denmark
Best movies:
Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
My Life to Live (1962)
Samuel Fuller
USA
Best movies:
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
The State of Things (1982)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
France
Best movies:
The 400 Blows (1959)
Day for Night (1973)
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Pascal Aubier
France
Best movies:
Three Murderesses (1959)
Chappaqua (1966)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Raymond Devos
Belgium
Best movies:
The Right of the Maddest (1973)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Krista Nell
Austria
Best movies:
The Professor (1972)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Blindman (1971)
Hans Meyer
South Africa
Best movies:
The Man from Acapulco (1973)
Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Dominique Zardi
France
Best movies:
Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)
Two Men in Town (1973)
Fantomas (1964)
Henri Attal
France
Best movies:
Animal (1977)
Fantomas (1964)
My New Partner (1984)
Georges Staquet
France
Best movies:
Happy New Year (1973)
I... For Icarus (1979)
The Discord (1978)
Graziella Galvani
Italy
Best movies:
Kapò (1959)
The Terrace (1980)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
Dirk Sanders
Indonesia
Best movies:
Le Notti Bianche (1957)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Vie privée (1962)
Roger Dutoit
France
Best movies:
Emile's Boat (1962)
OSS 117 Is Unleashed (1963)
Maigret Sees Red (1963)
Jimmy Karoubi
Best movies:
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche (1964)
Série noire (1984) (series)