PIERROT LE FOU In association with Lionsgate/StudioCanal and La Cinémathèque Française British Film Institute Awards - Sutherland Trophy (1965) Festival Selection: Cannes International Film Festival (2009) International Premiere - Special Digital Screening of the Restored Film Crime/Drama/Romance France, 1965 In French with English subtitles Digital 2K/Color/110 min Written and directed by: Jean-Luc Godard Based on a novel by: Lionel White Cinematography by: Raoul Coutard Editing by: Françoise Collin Music by: Antoine Duhamel Produced by: Georges de Beauregard, Dino de Laurentiis Production Company: Films Georges de Beauregard, Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica Coproduction: Rome Paris Films, SNC International Sales: StudioCanal 1, place du Spectacle 92863 Issy-les Moulineaux France Phone: +33 1.71.35.35.35 www.studiocanal.com Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo (Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'), Anna Karina (Marianne Renoir), Graziella Galvani (Ferdinand’s wife), Samuel Fuller (Himself), Raymond Devos (The man on the pier), Dirk Sanders (Fred, Marianne’s brother), Jean-Pierre Léaud (The young man in the movie theatre), László Szabó (The political exile), Based on Obsession, a novel by Lionel White, Pierrot le Fou is widely considered one of the most significant films of the New Wave and a turning point in Godard’s work. Featuring a cameo appearance of director Samuel Fuller and mixing pop culture, literary references and politics, the film follows in non-linear fashion the wild and ill-fated escapade of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Anna Karina), two lovers on the run. Funded by StudioCanal and the Cinémathèque Française, with the support of the Franco-American Cultural Fund, producer of COL•COA, the restoration makes the famously bright and vivid colors in Pierrot le Fou all the more compelling. This new restored version of the film was only screened digitally at the Cannes Film Festival and the Paris-based Cinémathèque before the screening at COL•COA 2010. JEAN-LUC GODARD is one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave and remains a radical filmmaker today. Following his debut feature Breathless (1960), written and produced with the help of François Truffaut, Godard wrote and directed some of his most celebrated films: Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (Golden Bear at the 1965 Berlinale), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Weekend (1967). After La Chinoise (1967), Godard’s work became more radical, ranging from political films like Ici et Ailleurs (1976) with the Dziga-Vertov group to a series of experimental works, including the video art piece Numéro Deux (1975) and the television mini-series France/tour/detour/deux/enfants (1977). He went back to narrative features in the 1980s, with Passion (1982), First Name: Carmen (Golden Lion at the 1983 Venice Film Festival) and the controversial Hail Mary (1985). Throughout the following decade, he worked on one of his major works, the comprehensive multi-part series Histoire(s) du cinema. Most recently, he wrote and directed the critically acclaimed In Praise of Love (2001) and Notre Musique (2004).