Pierrot le Fou

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Cast: Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo | Cert: 15

Godard called it the story of the "last romantic couple", but it was also his spectacular farewell to the style and spirit of the Nouvelle Vague. On impulse, Ferdinand abandons wife and child to take off with Marianne, an old flame, on a crazy and eventually tragic adventure, involving fast cars, gangsters and a Mediterranean idyll. This is a truly romantic film, but one which, in the best romantic tradition, is also deeply self-aware and at times self-mocking. A great finale to the world of the New Wave.

- Geoffrey Nowell-Smith