Pierrot Le Fou

Pierrot Le Fou (1965) is considered by many to be an early career masterpiece by Jean -Luc Goddard. It's loosely based on a crime novel but essentially, Goddard and his actors mostly improvised. The actors, Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, are one of the best aspects of the film. This is quite apparent in the film, in my opinion, it is somewhat scattershot-some bits work others look amateurish or are artless and unsuccessful. The story is about an aspiring writer, Ferdinand Griffon (Belmondo) who escapes his every day life and runs off with the babysitter Marianne (Karina) to the Mediterranean Sea. He lives for the moment with Marianne, reads books and tries to work on a diary. Meanwhile, the police and Algerian killers are chasing Marianne because she has committed a murder and stolen his money. Overall, it is over long with a few successful set pieces like Karina takes scissors and holds it in front of a wide-angle-lens to creates an interesting effect of distortion. But those moments are too few, this is not among my favorite Goddard films.