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Pierrot le Fou (1965)

Pierrot le Fou poster
Original title
Pierrot le fou
Directed by
Jean-Luc Godard
Genre
drama film, comedy film, romance film, crime film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
+13
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 948 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man named Ferdinand walks out on his boring marriage and drives south with a young woman named Marianne. They get caught up with criminals and their road trip becomes a reckless escape.

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What happens

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. It was the 15th-highest grossing film of the year, with a total of 1,310,580 admissions in France. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 38th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It received critical acclaim with praise towards the film's narrative style, Belmondo's and Karina's performances, Godard's direction and the cinematography. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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