Daniel and Corky go on the lam with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina to review Jean-Luc Godard’s apocalyptic road movie Pierrot le Fou. But were your hosts Vague-ly entranced by Godard’s Nouvelle vision, or did they act the Fou?

Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #85 [tied]

World premiere: Aug. 29, 1965 (Venice Film Festival)

IMDB synopsis: “Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.”

Official trailer for Pierrot le Fou

A Galaxie in the ocean

“A film is like a battleground.”

Kissing cars

Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987; Dir.: Abbas Kiarostami)

IMDB synopsis: “Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad’s notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad’s home in the neighbouring village.”

Our review of Where Is the Friend’s House comes out Tuesday, Feb. 3!

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