Featured Video: Song from Pierrot le fou

Posted on April 9, 2008 4 COMMENTS

Today is Jean-Paul Belmondo’s birthday, so I wanted to post a clip of him. Except Youtube wouldn’t cooperate in giving me Belmondo-focused clips that I actually like, and I didn’t have time to make my own. What is with the horrible quality of EVERY Breathless clip on Youtube, incidentally? Anyway, this is Anna Karina singing to Belmondo in Pierrot le fou. (And those of you who have paid attention to my Godard ramblings can probably figure out that it’s no great strain on me to post something Karina-focused. I’m pretty much in love with her. Sorry, Belmondo, for co-opting your birthday a bit.)

Categories: featured videos
Tags: Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pierrot le fou

Holly

I’m going to badly disappoint you and say that I don’t get it. Is it a musical or just a random bit of whimsy inserted into a film. Actually, as a random bit of whimsy, I might be most impressed…
Holly

I’m going to badly disappoint you and say that I don’t get it. Is it a musical or just a random bit of whimsy inserted into a film. Actually, as a random bit of whimsy, I might be most impressed…
http://www.the-frame.com/blog Jandy

It’s mostly a random bit of whismy. Godard tends to throw musical numbers into his films, even though none of them are really musicals. A Woman is a Woman comes closest, but it’s really an anti-musical–the musical sections disrupt the narrative rather than further it.

And don’t worry; I’m still not sure I get the film overall, and I’ve been reading about it like crazy (I’m sort of obsessed with it and writing a paper about it in a few weeks). If you haven’t seen anything by Godard, don’t start with this one. Start with Band of Outsiders.
http://www.the-frame.com/blog Jandy

It’s mostly a random bit of whismy. Godard tends to throw musical numbers into his films, even though none of them are really musicals. A Woman is a Woman comes closest, but it’s really an anti-musical–the musical sections disrupt the narrative rather than further it.

And don’t worry; I’m still not sure I get the film overall, and I’ve been reading about it like crazy (I’m sort of obsessed with it and writing a paper about it in a few weeks). If you haven’t seen anything by Godard, don’t start with this one. Start with Band of Outsiders.

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