Pierrot le Fou

Pierrot le Fou follows Ferdinand Griffon, a Parisian man who feels trapped in his marriage and his comfortable but empty life. At a social gathering, he runs into Marianne, a former girlfriend who has been working as the babysitter for his children. He leaves his wife and family behind and takes off with her toward the south of France. Marianne is tangled up with criminals, though, and the pair find themselves pursued by gangsters and the authorities as they travel. They hide out together, but money runs short and their relationship becomes strained, and the escape turns increasingly dangerous.

Jean-Luc Godard directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Rémo Forlani. The film is the ninth of the twenty-three features he directed, following The Married Woman and preceding Alphaville. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Ferdinand, nicknamed Pierrot, and Anna Karina plays Marianne; Graziella Galvani appears as Ferdinand's wife. It was produced by Georges de Beauregard and Dino De Laurentiis, and made in France and Italy.

Released in November 1965 and running 110 minutes, the film is a crime drama with romantic elements. It holds a 7.4 out of 10 on IMDb from around 40,000 votes and a 7.3 out of 10 on TMDB from roughly 968 votes. A critics' rating of 8.4 out of 10 from 51 reviews places it somewhat above those audience scores.