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...baby sitter, Marianne (Anna Karina) was once the petite amie of gunrunners. Along the trek she cuts one midget ex-associate dead by blithely plunging scissors into his neck; eventually she runs off with another smuggler. Ferdinand finds the violence catching and, in an explosive finale, he erases all points of the triangle...
...example, windy politics fray some of the film's visionary power. But in Pierrot Le Fou Godard shows that he can coax fine actors into superlative performances. Belmondo earns his lunatic (fou) sobriquet; his quirky bantam strut and broken-nosed banter are only a gasp away from Breathless. Karina's sensuality gives her ultimate villainy the quality of revelation...
...does omit one American target, however. At one point, Karina sets the theme of the movie by telling the tale of the man who had a brush with death and fled, only to meet it in his flight. Throughout the film, Godard leaves a trail of authors' names: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Faulkner, Jack London, Raymond Chandler. One name he fails to drop is that of the man who made the legend famous by basing a whole novel on it. He is John O'Hara, and his book was Appointment in Samarra...
Metatheatrical Master. Death is not all that is false. Conchis can re-create portions of his life at will. Nazi soldiers emerge from the forest; Greek villagers dead for over 20 years reappear; Urfe's girl (Anna Karina), a suicide, comes to life. Angry and bewildered, Urfe cannot penetrate his host's series of masques. Is Conchis a wizard who can make people materialize from his mind? Is he only a psychiatrist, trying to bring Lily back to sanity by enacting her fantasies in life? Is he a master of metatheater, in which everyone must play a part...
...Lovely Way to Die--A thriller, they say, with Kirk Douglas and Anna Karina. At the ORPHEUM, Washington St. across from Filene...