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Such moments are isolated in a screenplay that is full of mocking disdain and covered with an insincere bonhomie. From now on, Jean-Luc Godard may have to train his insights elsewhere. After all, why bother to guillotine a victim who is busy poisoning himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bus of Fools | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Pierrot is not a pessimistic statement on the meaningless of human existence. There is too much beauty in the film to be able to come away with a feeling of total despair. In Godard's words, "the cinema, by forcing reality to unfold itself, reminds us that we must attempt to live...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, AT THE ORSON WELLES | Title: Pierrot Le Fou | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...sequence of their flight from Paris is an example of the brilliant editing that Godard is noted for. He has succeeded in revolutionized the close...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, AT THE ORSON WELLES | Title: Pierrot Le Fou | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...GODARD HAS the uncanny ability of fusing the cosmic with the mundane. Almost every action has some larger importance. He appeals to his viewers on the level of their emotions. He films with his instincts. One comes away from Pierrot either emotionally satisfied or emotionally jarred, but either way exhausted, and in this sense Godard is successful...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, AT THE ORSON WELLES | Title: Pierrot Le Fou | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...Godard doesn't provide any answers; he doesn't explain. He simply imparts his view of the nature of existence...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, AT THE ORSON WELLES | Title: Pierrot Le Fou | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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