VCUarts CINEMA presents
PIERROT LE FOU (CRAZY PETE)
(Jean Luc Godard, 1965, 105 min., color, recent 35mm film print)
7:00 pm, VCU’s Grace Street Theatre
Admission $6

Iconoclastic New Wave director Godard returns to the gangster/bandit-on-the-run genre of Bande a part and Breathless, in this version a man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and a woman (Anna Karina) on the run from the Parisian mob live an idyllic existence in the south of France until tragedy strikes in the form of a string of betrayals. Lovingly photographed by Raoul Coutard in Techniscope, the film is highly reflexive, and essentially plotless and scriptless, perhaps the most Godardian of all his films – “a film where there has been no writing, no editing and no sound mixing.” – David A. Cook, A History of Narrative Film.