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Pierrot le Fou - Criterion Collection Streaming

Mardi, mai 4th, 2010
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My exposure to Godard films were through VHS tapes. I was too young to watch his 60’s films in their original formats. The transfer is not too great but good enough. The colors are right, it is thankfully letterboxed, etc. even if there are a few image distortions, artifacts and the sharpness and overall quality leaves a lot of room for improvement. There is something very wrong, however, with the sound especially towards the fifth chapter (that’s the 5th access in the chapter search of which there are only 6 - thanks to Fox/Lorber!) Thankfully, this is a subtitled film (can’t be switched off/on, they’re pasted on the screen) otherwise, even the French won’t understand the French dialogue. The noise distortion is terrible, but could it be Godard’s deliberate way to convey sound since it is the part in which the CB radios or walkie-talkies were being used in the scene? My impression is that the technician in charge was probably asleep or didn’t care when this noise distortion was taking place and the DVD didn’t go through quality control which could have fixed it. I haven’t seen the original so I don’t know but since this is a Godard film, anything goes. But then the distortion continued even after that scene so any reasoning to defend Fox’s negligience on this matter proved futile. I found it terribly distracting and I thought it pulled down the quality all the more of this already mediocre DVD transfer. Is this the best version yet? How does the VHS version rate? Fox/Lorber is hit and miss with DVDs. They did good with Seven Beauties, Last Year at Marienbad, and the already LD Criterion-restored Umbrellas of Cherbourg and 400 Blows but did very poorly with A Woman is a Woman, several Truffaut films and even the relatively recent Padre Padrone. What a shame that a company like Fox/Lorber gets the rights to release these great Foreign films but doesn’t have the interest to come up with quality transfers. I think this is a waste of our hard-earned money to buy the DVDs that they produce. Next time you buy from Fox/Lorber, read the reviews… otherwise just rent or wait for a better re-release in the future.

I saw a print of this film in NYC in the late 80s. It was pristine, colorful and a great experience. Along with Truffaut, Godard epitomized the French New Wave of the ’50s and ’60s, and this film along with “Woman is a Woman,” was one of his best. The use of color is amazing. Sadly, the source print for this DVD is oddly washed out, contains a few tears and pops in the sound track. It’s hard to believe there wasn’t a better copy available for Fox Lorber to use.
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