Northwest Film Forum

Belmondo (who elevates onscreen smoking to an art form) plays a bored bourgeois who gives up his button-down life and goes on the lam with his mistress, Anna Karina (the pin-up girl for existential angst). Godard’s cinema explodes off the screen as his ideas come at a furious pace while Belmondo and Karina play out the death of romance in lurid widescreen Technicolor. A titillating blend of fiction, poetry, discussions and digressions, PIERROT is a vivid celebration (and simultaneous condemnation) of the joys of cinema. Belmondo was nominated for a BAFTA for his performance.

"Belmondo moves with the athletic grace of the boxer he had been, yet plays a complex, reflective intellectual with the ease and poignancy he brought to his Bogart-idolizing petty thief in Godard's BREATHLESS." -LA TIMES