Synopsis : Ferdinand Griffon is unhappily married and has been recently fired. After attending a mindless party, he feels a need to escape and decides to run away with his ex Marianne Renoir, leaving his wife, children and bourgeois lifestyle. Following Marianne into her apartment and finding a corpse, Ferdinand discovers that Marianne is being chased by OAS gangsters. Marianne and Ferdinand, whom she calls Pierrot – a nickname meaning ‘sad clown’ – go on a crime spree from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea in the dead man's car.
Awards : 1965 Venice Film Festival, 1965 Cashiers du Cinema, 1965 British Film Institute Awards, 1967 BAFTA Awards
Director :
Jean Luc Godard
Producer :
Georges de Beauregard
DOP :
Raoul Coutard
Editor :
Françoise Collin
Cast :
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Roger Dutoit, Samuel Fuller
Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic who rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era and his acclaimed films include ‘Breathless’ (1960), ‘Vivre sa vie’ (1962), ‘Contempt’ (1963), ‘Band of Outsiders’ (1964), ‘Alphaville’ (1965), ‘Pierrot le Fou’ (1965), ‘Masculin Féminin’ (1966), ‘Weekend’ (1967), and ‘Goodbye to Language’ (2014).
During his early career as a film critic for the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard criticised mainstream French cinema's ‘Tradition of Quality’, which de-emphasised innovation and experimentation. In response, he and like-minded critics began to make their own films, challenging the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. His work makes use of frequent homages and references to film history, and often expresses his political views. In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award.