Comments on: Pierrot le Fou: The Criterion Edition http://blog.spout.com/2008/02/19/pierrot-le-fou-the-criterion-edition/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: James Campbell http://blog.spout.com/2008/02/19/pierrot-le-fou-the-criterion-edition/#comment-133397 James Campbell Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:52:08 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/2008/02/19/pierrot-le-fou-the-criterion-edition/#comment-133397 By "last film together", the good lady appears to have meant the last film they made while still in a relationship together, avant le divorce. As if that wasn't self-evident, given her inclusion of Alphaville in the grand narrative. I love this essay - it veers toward the personal but lets it stay in the background - and it draws me into thinking about the films of Godard in relation to his life, which I hadn't really done before. A rejuvenating effect on the viewing experience, it has. It also throws into relief the masculine auteur's narrative on Anna Karina (having just evacuated misconceptions of general misogyny or commentary thereon from my reading of Vivre Sa Vie, Le Mépris and Alphaville, I am now thrown to a critical pose on JLG's conception of Karina in particular). Your descriptions are also terse and evocative - I squirm with delight at the memory of that sequence with Sam Fuller. Thank you for this! Might it get into your book? By “last film together”, the good lady appears to have meant the last film they made while still in a relationship together, avant le divorce. As if that wasn’t self-evident, given her inclusion of Alphaville in the grand narrative.
I love this essay - it veers toward the personal but lets it stay in the background - and it draws me into thinking about the films of Godard in relation to his life, which I hadn’t really done before. A rejuvenating effect on the viewing experience, it has. It also throws into relief the masculine auteur’s narrative on Anna Karina (having just evacuated misconceptions of general misogyny or commentary thereon from my reading of Vivre Sa Vie, Le Mépris and Alphaville, I am now thrown to a critical pose on JLG’s conception of Karina in particular).
Your descriptions are also terse and evocative - I squirm with delight at the memory of that sequence with Sam Fuller.
Thank you for this! Might it get into your book?

]]> By: Dominik http://blog.spout.com/2008/02/19/pierrot-le-fou-the-criterion-edition/#comment-90145 Dominik Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:02:03 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/2008/02/19/pierrot-le-fou-the-criterion-edition/#comment-90145 "Pierrot le Fou, Godard and Karina’s last film together" that's not true. they worked together on MADE IN U.S.A. one year after pierrot le fou. “Pierrot le Fou, Godard and Karina’s last film together”

that’s not true. they worked together on MADE IN U.S.A. one year after pierrot le fou.

]]> By: rob parrish http://blog.spout.com/2008/02/19/pierrot-le-fou-the-criterion-edition/#comment-80096 rob parrish Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:09:48 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/2008/02/19/pierrot-le-fou-the-criterion-edition/#comment-80096 Karina, Good job, I am now eager to view "Pierrot" again, and to enjoy the features on the new disc. This also brings to mind a fond memory. One of my favorite birthdays ever was spent platonically in bed with one my wife's girlfriends watching "Pierrot" while my wife and another friend made me a cake shaped like the Thief's body from Greenaway's "The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover". Talk about film-lovers' nirvana! Cheers Rob Karina,

Good job, I am now eager to view “Pierrot” again, and to enjoy the features on the new disc. This also brings to mind a fond memory. One of my favorite birthdays ever was spent platonically in bed with one my wife’s girlfriends watching “Pierrot” while my wife and another friend made me a cake shaped like the Thief’s body from Greenaway’s “The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover”. Talk about film-lovers’ nirvana!

Cheers
Rob

]]> By: js202 http://blog.spout.com/2008/02/19/pierrot-le-fou-the-criterion-edition/#comment-79632 js202 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:11:10 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/2008/02/19/pierrot-le-fou-the-criterion-edition/#comment-79632 Brilliant interrogation/analysis of this film. Constitutes an object lesson demonstrating the necessity of meeting a complex work halfway. Take one step toward "Pierrot", it will take one toward you, and so on. Weak spirits need not apply. And I'm sure Jean Luc would have it no other way. Then or now. Brilliant interrogation/analysis of this film. Constitutes an object lesson demonstrating the necessity of meeting a complex work halfway.

Take one step toward “Pierrot”, it will take one toward you, and so on. Weak spirits need not apply.

And I’m sure Jean Luc would have it no other way. Then or now.

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