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Pierrot le fou, poetry down to earth

2020-08-18T12:22:31.167Z


ROAD-MOVIES IN FRANCE (3/6) - In 1965, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina headed south in a plum-colored 404 then in a convertible Ford Galaxy. For a Godard holiday.


American cinema does not have the privilege of the genre. The directors also leave on our national and our departmental. Mythical swerves and the poetry of wandering.

Godard wants a vacation. For his tenth film, he needs salt water and blue skies. Direction the Mediterranean. The filmmaker sums up Pierrot le Fou by compiling all his previous titles: "A little soldier who discovers with contempt that you have to live your life, that a woman is a woman, and that in a new world, you have to stand apart. so as not to end up out of breath. ” There are two other summaries: "A boy and a girl go towards the sun, try to live like Robinson Crusoe and do not succeed" or "Stuart Heisler reviewed by Raymond Queneau" . So we have a choice.

Read also: When Raymond Queneau demanded newspapers for his dog in 1951

First, there is a "Black Series" by Lionel White, Le Démon de eleven heures . Jean-Luc Godard will claim the opposite, but he will keep a lot of elements. It's about maintaining his legend of brilliant improviser. Jean-Paul Belmondo

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