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Pierrot le fou
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Overview

User Rating:
7.7/10   4,993 votes
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Director:
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer:
Jean-Luc Godard (writer)
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Release Date:
8 January 1969 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Crime more
Plot:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Criterion to bring Pierrot le Fou to Blu this September
 (From Twitch. 24 June 2009, 3:37 PM, PDT)

Love and Marriage
 (From IFC. 16 June 2009, 7:06 AM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot' (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
Anna Karina ... Marianne Renoir
Graziella Galvani ... La femme de Ferdinand
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Pierrot le fou (UK) (USA)
Crazy Pete
Il bandito delle 11 (Italy) (alternative spelling)
Il bandito delle ore undici (Italy)
Il bandito delle undici (Italy)
Pierrot Goes Wild
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Runtime:
110 min
Country:
France | Italy
Language:
French | English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Paris, France more
Company:
De Laurentiis more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Director Jean-Luc Godard allegedly shot the film without a script. See also À bout de souffle (1960). more
Quotes:
Ferdinard: I wonder what's keeping the cops. We should be in jail by now.
Marianne: They're smart... They let people destroy themselves.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Ma Ligne de Chance more

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25 out of 30 people found the following comment useful:-
My favorite thing, 19 May 2007
10/10
Author: gogobangbang from France

I was fifteen when I saw this movie for the first time. I didn't knew much about cinema at this time. I didn't knew much about art either, nor music, nor nothing. But I will never forget the shock it was for me to discover that movie. This was pure poetry, it was the first time in my life I ever saw blue color, red and yellow. You don't have to be intellectual to love this movie, just a free child.

About some strange English subtitles I have on my DVD:

At the end of the movie, we can hear in French the first lines of a poem by Arthur Rimbaud (L'Eternité, 1872):

(Here I wanted to write the original french lines, but I'm not allowed. Curious world.)

English subtitles:

It's ours again / what is ? / eternity / No that's just the sea And the Sun

It should have been:

It is found again./ What is ? Eternity/ It is the sea/ Gone with the sun./

Minute 41. Ferdinand and Marianne are watching the man on the moon.

English subtitles:

F: - He thinks your legs and your breasts are very moving/ M: - Be quiet

But I can hear in French:

F: - I find your legs and your breasts very moving/ M: - Fcuk me

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