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Notre ami Pierrot

Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 omnibus rides again
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  September 12, 2007
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If Godard’s previous film, Alphaville, was a love letter to Karina, her performance in Pierrot looks like her answer. (Married in 1961, they divorced in 1967.) For Pierrot’s score, Godard asked Antoine Duhamel to come up with something “romantic à la Schumann,” but what we hear recalls Bernard Herrmann’s score for Vertigo’s doomed Scottie and Madeleine, a bittersweet counterweight to the heavy intellectualizing. Pierrot is a mess, no matter how many times you see it, but it’s a brilliant mess. Death of love, (re)birth of cinema.

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