Pierrot le Fou movie storyline. Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo), married to a wealthy Italian wife, has recently been fired from the television station where he worked. His wife forces him to go to a party at the home of her influential father, who wants to introduce him to a potential employer. Her brother brings babysitter Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina) to take care of their children.
Feeling bored at the bourgeois party, Ferdinand borrows his brother-in-law’s car to head home. He meets Marianne, who was his mistress five years ago and insists on calling him Pierrot, and offers to take her home. They spend the night together and he learns that she’s involved in smuggling weapons. When terrorists chase her, they decide to leave Paris and his family behind and go on the run, on a crazy journey to nowhere.
Pierrot le Fou is a 1965 French New Wave film 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 Pierrot, an unhappily married man as he escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men 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.
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Dirk Sanders, Jimmy Karoubi, Roger Dutoit, Hans Meyer, Samuel Fuller, Princesse Aïcha Abadie, Alexis Poliakoff, Raymond Devos
Screenplay by: Jean-Luc Godard
Production Design by: Pierre Guffroy
Cinematography by: Raoul Coutard
Film Editing by: Françoise Collin
Music by: Antoine Duhamel
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)
Release Date: November 5, 1965
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