Represents a high watermark of the art film, and in no small measure due to its despair over the artist’s ambivalent, uncertain role in an era of aesthetic, technological, and political turmoil. —Guest Post by Michael Joshua Rowin

"Pierrot" is less successfully artistically than several Godard films that followed it: Masculine Feminine, La Chinoise and Weekend. It's much more than historically interesting, though, this funny little fugue for soured sweethearts.

The film is poetic, quiet, introverted, personal.

Violent rejection of societal and aesthetic norms guided by a Looney Tunes logic, as Godard distracts himself from the familiar lovers-on-the-run story with experiments in color, composition, exuberance and incoherence.