Sunday, 1 September 2013

Pierrot le Fou

(1965)

RATING:60%
FORMAT:Cinema

[Pierrot Goes Wild; Crazy Pete]

Godard’s usual love of US culture and hatred of US politics is the self-involved focus here. The director constantly reminds us we are watching a movie via Brechtian distancing devices in this meta-film about a pair of Bonnie & Clyde types criticising Western materialism and imperialism.

Additionally, a self indulgent analysis of a failed sexual-relationship; lacking proper insight as to why the characters relentlessly rationalize their feelings (ie, talk to camera) rather than come to terms with them. The lack of context here is negative in dramatic terms since the grammar of film becomes the grammar of this film in it being also very much an essay on cinema itself.

Little more than the sum of its fun parts, yet Jean Paul BELMONDO (like Humphrey Bogart) is one of the few rebel actors who looks good with a cigarette hanging from his mouth.

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