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Pierrot le Fou is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean-Pierre Léaud released in USA on 8 january 1969 with Jean-Paul Belmondo
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
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Add to a movie listPierrot le Fou ([pjɛʁo lə fu], French for "Pierrot the madman") is a 1965 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film is based on the 1962 novel, Obsession, by Lionel White. It was Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature film, released between Alphaville and Masculin, féminin. 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.
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Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is unhappily married and has been recently fired from his job at a TV broadcasting company. After attending a mindless party full of shallow discussions in Paris, he feels a need to escape and decides to run away with his baby-sitter, an ex-girlfriend, Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), leaving his wife and children and bourgeois lifestyle. Following Marianne into her apartment and finding a corpse, Ferdinand soon discovers that Marianne is being chased by OAS gangsters, two of whom they barely escape.Actors
Jean-Paul Belmondo
(Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot')
Anna Karina
(Marianne Renoir)
Samuel Fuller
(Samuel Fuller (uncredited))
Jean-Pierre Léaud
(Le Jeune Homme au Cinéma (uncredited))
Roger Dutoit
(Le Gangster (uncredited))
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