Pierrot le fou (The Criterion Collection)Genre: Action & AdventureLabel: The Criterion CollectionDescription: Dissatisfied in marriage and life Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina) and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire au courant politics and comic-book aesthetics as well as a violent zigzag tale of as Godard called them the last romantic couple. With blissful color imagery by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their most animated Pierrot le fou is one of the high points of the French New Wave and was Godard's last frolic before he moved ever further into radical cinema.
