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Pierrot le Fou

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Synopsis

Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeoisie behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, "the last romantic couple." With blissful color imagery by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their most animated, Pierrot le Fou is one of the high points of the French new wave, and one last frolic before Godard moved ever further into radical cinema.

3 Reasons To buy this film

Beautiful new Criterion edition
Godard's lightest, most entertaining film
Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Need we say more?

Review

Godard's ebullience for life and his fascination with the possibilities of film are wonderfully displayed in this frantic and stylized tale of love, intrigue and betrayal. Belmondo and Karina star as two young lovers who involve themselves in a murder and begin an idyllic flight from justice. Filming without a script, Godard embellishes his story of doomed romantic love with splashy colors, exotic settings in the south of France, his trademark use of jump-cuts, classical music and literary references.