SYNOPSIS:
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 bourgeoisie behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard’s tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, 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.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
· Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by cinematographer Raoul Coutard
· Video interview with actor Anna Karina
· A "Pierrot" Primer, a video program with audio commentary by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
· Godard, l'amour, la poésie, a fifty-minute French documentary about director Jean-Luc Godard and his marriage and films with Karina
· Archival interview excerpts featuring Godard, Karina, and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo
· Theatrical trailer
· PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Richard Brody, a review by Andrew Sarris, and an interview with Godard
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