NO FOOLIN'

Today's movie was the Criterion restoration of Jean-Luc Godard's revolutionary

Pierre Le Fou (1965)

with Jean-Paul Bel Mondo and Anna Karina.

It didn't have legs.

What was revolutionary and enlightening about this absurdist take on Hollywood genrés is now less of a romp than it was the first time around.

I am sure that I saw it. I don't remember them all.

Some of the stuff looks, now, like grade school.

Viet Nam figures in as well as just about all the cultural icons of the time.

Well, I don't suppose he made it to be timeless.

It is a bit unfair to complain.

Since there is little plot and the 'episodes' are more like bits of a silent comedy (with sound) and slapstick, it looks more than it feels.

I am glad that I got it just to check in on my past.

I found it a bit embarrassing but not without its charm.

After all, I am the result of my past and so is good cinema today.

A lot that looks silly now was groundbreaking then.

And Bel Mondo is a sexy hunk.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5 in respect for its past.