Favorite quote from Jean-Luc Godard about PIERROT LE FOU (1965):
“The great traditional cinema means Visconti as opposed to Fellini
or Rossellini. It is a way of selecting certain scenes rather than others. The
Bible is also a traditional book since it effects a choice in what it
describes. If I were ever to film the life of Christ, I would film the scenes
which are left out of the Bible. In SENSO, which I quite like, it was the
scenes which Visconti concealed that I wanted to see. Each time I wanted to
know what Farley Granger said to Allida Valli, bang! – a fade out. PIERROT LE
FOU, from this standpoint, is the antithesis of SENSO: the moments you do not
see in SENSO are shown in PIERROT.”
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