Pierrot le Fou

Courtesy French Culture  Wed, 08/06/2008 - 10:08

The Wolfsonian presents its annual summer series: "Cinematic detours: Road Movies".

This film is the tale of the unorthodox life of Pierrot, the annoying nickname given to unhappily-married Ferdinand Griffon by his babysitter/ex-girlfriend, Marianne Renoir.

He leaves his wife and children and flees with Marianne only to find himself chased by Algerian gangsters in a traveling crime spree from Paris to the Mediterranean.

Like much pop art of the time, the film uses visuals drawn from cartoons and employs an...


 

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