Pierrot le Fou Screening: Tue. Oct 13th, 2009 @ 6:00 PM - Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael, CA
FOCUS: FRANCE &bull “On your feet, dead man!” calls Marianne Renoir (the stunning Anna Karina) sweetly to her sacked-out lover: fleeing bourgeois family man Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo), aka Pierrot. His nickname for her? “Virginia,” his unexplored territory, his New World. But so many names are in play in Jean-Luc Godard’s highly playful, formally brilliant and still startling 1965 masterpiece. Real-life superstar Belmondo becomes his character’s own last name, the hero as hunter or lapdog. Marianne’s surname, meanwhile, marries painting and cinema together in a film that reinvents painting as cinema, cinema as painting. Add fireworks in a night sky turning cinematic cliché into Impressionist brushstrokes, then into antiaircraft fire (underscored with bursting storm clouds), and you get a tiny fraction of the eye-popping tricolor landscape, the aurally and verbally dense terrain, the explosive political ground, the ecstatic aesthetic frontier into which these inexorable rebel-lovers escape and evaporate. More serious fun is rarely had with or at the cinema. —Rob Avila
Running time: 110 Country: France Category: World Cinema Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard Producer: Georges de Beauregard Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard, novel by Lionel White Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard Editor: Françoise Collin Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Ticket Code: PIER13R
Print Source: Janus Films 215 Park Avenue South Floor 5 New York, NY 10003 Ph: 212-756-8822 Fax: 212-756-8850
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Screening:
Tue. Oct 13th, 2009 @ 6:00 PM - Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael CA
This film has gone to RUSH. If seats become available, they will be sold to patrons in the RUSH line on a first come, first served basis. Cash only, no discounts.
