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Pierrot le fou
Released: 21/05/2009
BFI, London
A road-trip movie in the hands of Jean Luc-Godard – what a treat. Ferdinand decides to leave his stable Paris life whilst in the grip of what can only be described as a flamboyantly destructive mid-life crisis. The results are thrilling, tragic and broadly majestic.
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Guardian“Godard offers us a deconstructive version” Engaging and beguiling - perhaps in spite of itself - and a vital part of film history.
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The Telegraph“Godard’s two most iconic stars...” This movie is a symphony in the key of red, obsessed by contemporary design and semiotics, and oddly meticulous in its deconstruction of classical filmmaking, the crime genre – even musicals.
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Channel4 Film“a film that flirts with the spectacular while embracing the ridiculous...” An eye-poppingly vivid exercise in genre-busting filmmaking. Here is one of the most persistently intriguing directors of the 1960s at his most watchable and entertaining.
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New York Times Movies“Pierrot le fou is a catalogue of cinematic inventions...” Pierrot le fou incorporates musical numbers, references to the history of cinema and painting, and quotations from literature. The film features Godard's most extended use of color
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