Crazy Pete (1965) ( Pierrot le fou ) ( Il Bandito delle ore undici )

Crazy Pete (1965) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Pierrot le fou
Alternate Title: Il Bandito delle ore undici
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Film Credits
Interactive Menu
Posters
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1965 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Jean-Luc Godard

Written By:
Jean-Luc Godard

Actors:
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot' (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
Anna Karina ..... Marianne Renoir
Graziella Galvani ..... La femme de Ferdinand
Aicha Abadir ..... Herself (uncredited)
Henri Attal ..... Gasstation-attendant #1 (uncredited)
Pascal Aubier ..... Second Brother (uncredited)
Raymond Devos ..... L'homme qui peur (uncredited)
Roger Dutoit ..... Le gangster (uncredited)
Samuel Fuller ..... Himself (uncredited)
Pierre Hanin ..... Third Brother (uncredited)
Jimmy Karoubi ..... Dwarf (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Léaud ..... Young Man in Movie Theatre (uncredited)
Hans Meyer ..... Gangster (uncredited)
Krista Nell ..... Mme Staquet (uncredited)
Dirk Sanders ..... Fred, le frère de Marianne (uncredited)
Georges Staquet ..... Franck (uncredited)
László Szabó ..... Political exile (uncredited)
Dominique Zardi ..... Gasstation-attendant #2 (uncredited)

Synopsis:

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.

Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Karina). They meet when Ferdinand's wife hires Marianne as a baby-sitter. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to run away with her. The couple get caught up in a mysterious gun-running scheme involving Marianne's brother (Dirk Sanders). With Pierrot le fou Godard returns to the story of A bout de souffle (Breathless): the tale of a couple on the run. But in the six years between the two films Godard developed a more complex and often difficult style. 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 to that point, as the shots are filled with blocks of bright primary colors. Pierrot le fou is a catalogue of cinematic inventions and of gestures made by couples in love.

A young man leaves wife and home in an effort to find a new life with a girl he meets. But she entangles him in perpetual violence and crime, and he finds himself compelled to kill her and then himself.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 12 February, 2023.