Pierrot le Fou Reviews

‘A bout de souffle’ is and will remain one of my favorite movies forever and I have been following Godard ever since his masterpiece really blew me away but, unfortunately, no one of his movies have reached this level of awesomeness, at least not in my opinion. The point is that, pretty soon in his career, his movies started to get pretty cryptic really soon and become harder and harder to follow and, nowadays, except for a few die-hard fans, we all pretty much agree that his work has become some incomprehensible pseudo-intellectual and political mix, a mix I always had a hard time to appreciate. This movie is a pretty good example. Indeed, it has in fact a really good reputation and maybe I should give it a second chance at some point in the future but, to be honest, I really had a hard time to care about the whole thing. Basically, 5 years after ‘A bout de souffle’, Godard was working again with Jean-Paul Belmondo and I was expecting something massive from those two. In fact, I thought that this movie was really similar to his impressive debut but while this great classic was inspiring and mesmerizing, I thought that this follow-up was rather pretentious and just way too cryptic for my taste. To conclude, even though I didn’t like it much, it is still worth a look though, especially if you are interested in Jean-Luc Godard’s work.