Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou”
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou”
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Friday, July 14 as we tip out hat to French cinema with a Bastille Day triple bill, featuring the late Jean-Luc Godard‘s “new wave” triumph PIERROT LE FOU, Matthieu Kassovitz‘ gritty and groundbreaking urban drama LA HAINE (2020 restoration), and a 50th Anniversary Friday Late Night screening of the animated sci-fi classic FANTASTIC PLANET. See one, or see them all for one sweet price!
Uninterested in his wife (Raymond Devos), Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) wearies of his stagnant life. But when the couple hires an enigmatic baby-sitter, Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), Ferdinand falls head over heels in love with her and abandons his family. He soon discovers, however, that his mistress is not who she seems. Pursued by foreign thugs, Ferdinand and Marianne steal a car and embark on a crime spree through the French countryside all the way to the Mediterranean.
“Riotous and effulgently beautiful!” (The Village Voice)
“Colorful, subversive, and overall beguiling, Pierrot le Fou is arguably Jean-Luc Godard’s quintessential work.” (Rotten Tomatoes)
“The film is poetic, quiet, introverted, personal.” (New York Times)
“Godard abandoned the conventions of narrative cinema and adopted a loose picaresque format around which he could arrange subversive generic tropes, poetic digressions, political ideas and comic-book escapades.” (Empire Magazine)
Friday, July 14
Doors 5:40 pm | Movie 6:10 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Advance tickets HERE
Bastille Day Triple Bill Passes HERE
Sunday, July 16
Doors 3:50 pm | Movie 4:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Advance tickets HERE
PIERROT LE FOU (Jea-Luc Godard, 1965 / 110 mins / 14A / French with English subtitles) Ferdinand, unhappily married and recently fired from his job, abandons his family and runs off to the Riviera with the enigmatic Marianne. Ferdinand, whom Marianne calls “Pierrot,” tries to find artistic fulfillment between bouts of criminal adventure, but keeps getting entangled in Marianne’s violent life.
