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Spoiler-free premise
Bored Ferdinand abandons Paris with former lover Marianne, whose criminal entanglements turn their Mediterranean escape into pursuit.
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Television writer Ferdinand Griffon leaves a bourgeois party with babysitter and former lover Marianne Renoir. Discovering weapons and a body in her apartment, they flee toward the Mediterranean while Marianne's links to smugglers and political violence remain unstable.
Why it belongs
Through primary color, direct address, pulp violence, literature, and Karina and Belmondo's incompatible stories, Pierrot le Fou makes romantic flight a pop-art essay.
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Belmondo seeks a book while Karina keeps moving the plot. Red and blue cars, comic-book text, seaside landscapes, songs, sudden essays, guns, and looks into camera let genre and thought interrupt each other.
Major award wins
No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.
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