Double Feature
Pierrot Le Fou
Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo), unhappily married and recently fired from his job, abandons his family and runs off to the Riviera with the enigmatic Marianne (Anna Karina). Ferdinand, whom Marianne calls “Pierrot,” tries to find artistic fulfillment between bouts of criminal adventure, but keeps getting entangled in Marianne’s violent life. (Rialto Pictures)
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Writer
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Starring
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
- Year
- 1965
- Country
- France
- Format
- English subtitled 35mm
- Running Time
- 110 minutes
Le Petit Soldat
Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier), writer/director Jean-Luc Godard’s second feature film, was made in 1960 but immediately banned in France due to its sensitive political content and did not premiere until 1963. Michel Subor (Beau Travail) stars as Bruno Forestier, an army deserter caught in the middle of a covert war between the French government and the Algerian Liberation Front in Geneva. With both sides resorting to any means to achieve their clandestine ends, Bruno must decide what he is willing to do to escape with Veronica (Anna Karina, star of Band of Outsiders and A Woman Is A Woman, in her enchanting debut) and lead a free life. Arguably an espionage riff on the filmmaker’s own debut feature, Breathless, this is the film where Godard penned his signature statement: “Cinema is truth 24 frames a second.” (Rialto Pictures)
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Writer
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Starring
- Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet
- Year
- 1963
- Country
- France
- Format
- English subtitled 35mm
- Running Time
- 88 minutes