Pierrot le Fou (1965)

19651h 50mdir. Jean-Luc GodardFrenchFrance, Italyromance filmdrama film

With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Dirk Sanders, Samuel Fuller, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Dominique Zardi, Georges Staquet

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

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Pierrot le Fou (pronounced [pjɛʁo lə fu], French for "Pierrot the Fool") is a 1965 French New Wave romantic crime drama road film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. The film is based on the 1962 novel Obsession by Lionel White. It was Godard's tenth feature film, released between Alphaville and Masculin, Féminin. The plot follows Ferdinand, an unhappily married man, as he escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a young woman chased by OAS hitmen from Algeria.

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