Synopsis
Pierrot le Fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's road-crime-romance hybrid and one of the French New Wave's most restless achievements — stream it online on iFILM. Shot in vivid color with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, the film refuses to settle into any single genre: part fugitive thriller, part lyric essay, part relationship autopsy.
Ferdinand ditches a dull bourgeois party and takes off with Marianne, a woman tangled up with Algerian gangsters and a dead body. They drive south toward the Mediterranean, burning money and running from people who want them dead. He reads books and talks to the camera. She dances and lies. The gap between what each of them wants from this escape is the actual subject of the film.
Godard shot most of it without a finished script, rewriting scenes the morning they were filmed. American director Samuel Fuller turns up in one scene to explain, in plain terms, what cinema is supposed to do. The film has appeared on numerous all-time greatest lists and influenced decades of crime films. Watch Pierrot le Fou (1965) online on iFILM.
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