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 bourgeois world behind.
This is, however, no ordinary road trip: the tenth feature in six years by the renowned filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics. It portrays the violent, zigzag narrative about what Godard called ’the last romantic couple’, travelling from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea as Marianne is being chased by hitmen from Algeria.
With stunning color cinematography by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their peaks, Pierrot le fou is one of the high points of the French New Wave, and was Godard’s last creative outburst before he immersed himself further into politically radical cinema.
Also part of ‘5x Godard’:
The unrefined free-form rebellious debut film of Jean Luc-Godard that put him, Jean-Paul Belmondo and French New Wave (Nouvelle vague) cinema on the world map.
A musical comedy with a neorealistic approach featuring French superstar actors Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo – something only Jean-Luc Godard is able to pull off.
Deze zomer brengt De Balie de films van Jean-Luc Godard terug naar het witte doek. Vijf klassiekers van een van de grootste vernieuwers uit de cinema. Vanaf 18 juli te zien bij De Balie! ‘Een film moet een begin, een midden en een einde hebben. Maar niet noodzakelijk in die volgorde’, zo luidt Godards bekendste