You've met the tame Godard, the love Godard, the think Godard, ...now meet the wild Godard!
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
- 7.3
- 1965
- Released
- 1h 50m
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'
Anna Karina
Marianne Renoir
Graziella Galvani
Maria, Ferdinand's Wife
Aicha Abadir
Aicha Abadir (uncredited)
Henri Attal
Le Premier Pompiste (uncredited)
Maurice Auzel
Le Troisième Pompiste (uncredited)
Raymond Devos
L'Homme du Port (uncredited)Roger Dutoit
The Gangster (uncredited)Jimmy Karoubi
Le Nain (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)
Hans Meyer
Gangster (uncredited)
Krista Nell
Madame Staquet (uncredited)Dirk Sanders
Fred (uncredited)
Georges Staquet
Frank (uncredited)
László Szabó
L'Exilé Politique (uncredited)
Dominique Zardi
Le Deuxième Pompiste (uncredited)
Released
fr
$300,000.00
- #paris, france
- #mediterranean
- #painting
- #bourgeoisie
- #road trip
- #femme fatale
- #money
- #bombing
- #dock
- #fugitive lovers
Reviews
Remember the old days of vinyl when you'd put the stylus on, and it would just slide across the disc? Well, despite the number of times I have watched this film, it does the same as that stylus. I just don't really get it. It centres around the slightly Bonnie and Clyde existence of the married and recently unemployed television executive "Ferdinand" (Jean Paul Belmondo) and his flighty ex-babysit
This is one of those utterly satisfying film experiences that seem to exploit every possibility of the cinematic medium The French New Wave drew much inspiration from American crime stories, and Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film PIERROT LE FOU has a plot that is essentially simple: Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo), five years into a marriage that leaves him unsatisfied, meets his children's babysitter