Pierrot le Fou was incredibly Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature directed over the course of just six years and was his most self-referential film at the time of its 1965 release.

A family man Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) spontaneously escapes his monotonous Parisian bourgeois life to couple up with his child's baby-sitter Marianne (Anna Karina), who both set on the road for a surreal journey to the Mediterranean. But life isn't simple for this twosome as, unbeknownst the Ferdinand, Marianne is on the run from Algerian hitmen. Will they find a sanctuary for their very own?

With echoes back to his previous work, including working with the same actors from Breathless and Bande À Part, Godard's film was controversial on release, being booed when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival! But it is now looked at fondly as the last frolic before he moved into more radical territory.

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