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Pierrot le Fou

1965 · directed by Jean-Luc Godard · 110 min
24,632 feet · Prominence
614th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw0

No worldwide gross on file, so Draw is zero. A gap in the data, not a verdict.

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise89

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics88 baseAwards11 signal → +1 lift

BAFTAs1 nominated Actor
How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy78

Judged directly: Godard landmark, Criterion and Sight & Sound.

Verdict78 of 100IMDb7.4 from 40kWikipedia6k views a monthAge61 years

On the listsCriterion CollectionSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 184 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 0 praise 89 legacy 78averages 56, placing it at24,632 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Aicha Abadir

In these careers — elevation for this film

Jean-Paul Belmondo18,694 ftAnna Karina18,440 ftGraziella Galvani17,648 ftAicha Abadir17,622 ftJean-Pierre Léaud17,620 ft