Word: fou
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French, who may be the world's canniest people, do like to play crazy. Particularly when being fou like a fox lays a hot trail to the bank. They can be observed at their canniest-craziest at the annual showings in Paris of ready-to-wear fashions for fall and winter. The April r.t.w. cash bash is a come-lately promotion-cum-celebration that in recent years has overtaken the haute couture collections in importance, supports the high-fashion houses, and is largely responsible for drawing nearly $2 billion a year into the French economy. This year...
Thursday, April 6 International Week Lecture--I Ching Chinese Art of fortune telling. T. James Kodera, Professor of Religion and Biblical Studies. Lunch at 12 (by reservation or bring your own). Slater Center, 12:30 p.m. French 240--Pierrot le Fou, 377 Science Center...
After riddling the Fordham zone defense in the first half, the Crimson got off only nine shots from the floor in the second stanza. The cagers hit seven of 14 foul shots, and out-rebounded 29-12. In fact, the hoopsters had a chance to sink a pair of fou! snots on 18 occasions during the game, and converted both only four times...
...French director Jean-Luc Godard seems to say in his latest film, Numero Deux (Number Two), "and it stifles." Like so many firebrand prophets of imminent revolution in the '60s, Godard is now wrestling with this decade's disillusionment. Ten years ago, with films like Weekend and Pierrot Le Fou. Godard became renowned and revered as the most blatantly political, and radical, of the French "new wave directors." His movies shocked and stirred with bitter anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois visual polemics. But just as Godard was then trying to translate radical ideology onto the screen, with Numero Deux...
Film lives and preserves and Goretta is consciously paying tribute to it. Through allusions to Godard's Pierrot Le Fou (Pierre's wife tells him "sometimes I think you're crazy") and to Chabrol ("are you frightened? Do you think I'll strangle you?") Goretta places himself in the tradition of modern French, not Swiss, filmmakers. He is certainly more subtle and less pretentious than Alain Tanner, though as yet he has not been as widely received in this country. Perhaps sufficient interest will be stirred by this film to prompt more screenings of his first two features, Le Fou...