Pierrot Le Fou is quite obviously a film that will reward subsequent viewings.

| Feb 23, 2024

In beautiful color and modernizing of a calmer France, it would be among the last works in Godard’s first phase where he then shifted to politically charged movies.

| Mar 1, 2023

The most spectacularly beautiful of Godard’s films, and not just for the closeups of Karina.

| Oct 10, 2022

Represents a high watermark of the art film, and in no small measure due to its despair over the artist’s ambivalent, uncertain role in an era of aesthetic, technological, and political turmoil. —Guest Post by Michael Joshua Rowin

| Sep 6, 2022

"Pierrot" is less successfully artistically than several Godard films that followed it: Masculine Feminine, La Chinoise and Weekend. It's much more than historically interesting, though, this funny little fugue for soured sweethearts.

| Jul 6, 2022

It's [Jean-Luc] Godard in a nutshell--all for the price of one ticket.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 15, 2021

a uniquely Godardian mess, which means that you can sense the order through the chaos, even if you can't always put your finger on what, exactly, Godard is after at any given moment

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2020

This is Godard in free-floating form.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2020

The film is beauty, whimsy, and magic all wrapped around a sour center.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 9, 2020

It's a masterpiece, one of the monumental films of our time.

| Jan 27, 2020

The film is poetic, quiet, introverted, personal.

| Jan 9, 2018

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2014

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 punch.

| Original Score: A | Jul 16, 2014

Few would deny that Pierrot Le Fou is [Godard's] most innovative, iconoclast, and subversive film to date.

| Jul 16, 2014

The melodramatic sluice-of-life interludes are what ultimately swamp the film's modest blend of whimsy and melancholy.

| Jul 16, 2014

Of the Godardian '60s, this effervescent, self-mocking, effortlessly iconic masterpiece may be the filmmaker's quintessential work.

| Jul 16, 2014

As with many other Godard films, I didn't like Pierrot le Fou the first time I saw it, but it stuck with me, and months later, I couldn't wait to see it again. Now I believe it's a masterpiece.

| Aug 22, 2012

Pierrot is a self conscious mash up of every movie genre that Godard loves, of every movie he has made, of all the artistic references (music, painting, literature) that have influenced or affected him

| Original Score: 78/100 | Jul 26, 2011

An idiosyncratic work by a filmmaker trotting out his obsessions of the moment and committing them to film without much regard for actual meaning.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 30, 2009

And then theres the color. As much as anything, "Pierrot" is a film about red and blue, as well as a little bit of yellow and green.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 26, 2009