France
1965/35mm/110mins M
SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2.00 PM – Arc at NFSA
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina in a story of the last romantic couple. Jean-Luc Godard’s French new wave masterpiece, newly restored by the Cinémathèque Français.
Belmondo is a jaded Parisian TV executive. Karina his old lame Marianne, who re-appears one night to reveal herself as… what? An urban terrorist? Spy? Pure femme fatale? Within a night and a day, he’s got the girl, she brings the guns (and an inexhaustible supply of quotations from French poetry, Hollywood movies and comic books) and they head south in search of utopia. Officially from American hardboiled writer Lionel White’s novel OBSESSION, it’s more than anything else an ode to lost love, made by the then-newly divorced Godard and Karina, who reportedly barely spoke during production. Cinematographer Raoul Coutard shot the film in the colours of Yves Klein and Renoir, but only with this digital restoration can we grasp the beauty of the Technoscope colour process with which it was originally made.
Restored by Cinémathèque Française, Studio Canal, and the Fond Culturel Americain.
PIERROT LE FOU
(CRAZY PETE)
Director Jean-Luc Godard Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Dirk Sanders, Sam Fuller Print Source Cinémathèque Français
