“The Americans,” Jean-Luc Godard said in an interview at the time of his 1965 film Pierrot Le Fou, “know how to tell stories very well; the French, not at all. Flaubert and Proust don’t know how to ...

Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou” is a pop-art film from the 1960s. A crime story of double-crossing and romance, the French classic will be playing at the Aero Theatre on Thursday. (Courtesy of ...

Pierrot le fou (1965) is, unignorably, one of Jean-Luc Godard’s goofiest movies. Just as Jean-Paul Belmondo’s character’s name freely alternates between his real one, Ferdinand, and that of the film’s ...

There’s cool and then there’s Jean-Paul Belmondo. No one ever made being bored look so exciting, and the effortlessly graceful and impossibly hip actor gave the mid-’60s nouvelle vague a needed macho ...

Editor’s note: A newly restored version of “Pierrot le Fou” opens Friday at the Cinefamily. Below is the 2007 review of its last Los Angeles reissue. Jean-Luc Godard’s films have always reflected the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Every time I review a film by Jean-Luc Godard, I receive outraged letters from readers who hated it. It is suggested that my reviews and myself join Godard ...

For the second time in recent memory, a Jean-Luc Godard film has inspired the annual Cannes Film Festival poster — this year with an image from his 1965 crime/romance pic Pierrot Le Fou. It’s a ...

We're now less than a month away from the 71 Cannes Film Festival kicking off, so the festival has revealed their official poster art. I have a tradition of always writing about this here, because ...

A WRITER from Paris in the Atlantic Monthly a while ago lamented upon the scarcity of exceptional literary talent in France today, and suggested that this talent has been channeled into film. Jean-Luc ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Made in 1965, but not appearing on U.S. screens till 1969, Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou is a film that’s as maddening as you ...

Jean Luc Godard’s legendary Pierrot Le Fou – one of the hallmark films of the French New Wave movement of the 1950s and 1960s – is the ultimate crime caper. After realizing his dissatisfaction with ...