Pierrot le Fou

Pierrot le Fou pronouncedpjo l fu , French for Pierrot the madman is a 1965 French film directed by JeanLuc Godard, starring Anna Karina and JeanPaul Belmondo. The film is based on the 1962 novel, Obsession, by Lionel White. It was JeanLuc Godards tenth feature film, released between Alphaville and Masculin, fminin. The film 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.

Marianne and Pierrot the unwelcome nickname meaning sad clown, which Marianne gives to Ferdinand during their time together go on a traveling crime spree from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea in the dead mans car. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. Settling down in the French Riviera after having burnt the dead mans car full of money and sunk a second car into the Mediterranean Sea, their relationship becomes strained. Griffon ends up reading books, philosophizing and writing in his diary. The babysitter becomes bored of the Robert Louis Stevensonnessfurther explanation needed of their living situation and insists they return to town, where in a night club they meet one of their pursuers. The gangsters waterboard Pierrot and depart. In the confusion, Marianne and Ferdinand are separated, with her traveling in search of Pierrot and him settling in Toulon.After their eventual reunion, Renoir uses Griffon to get a suitcase full of money before running away with her real boyfriend, Fred Dirk Sanders, to whom she had previously referred as her brother. Pierrot shoots Marianne and her boyfriend, and then paints his face blue and decides to blow himself up by tying sticks of red and yellow dynamite to his head. Regretting his decision at the last second, he tries to extinguish the fuse, but, due to the dynamite obstructing his vision, fails and is blown up. ........

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