蜜芽传媒

Jean Paul Belmondo plays a Paris businessman who takes off with the family nanny on a chaotic road trip to the Riviera coast.

Anna Karina frequently mentions the lack of a script when working with Jean-Luc Godard. Sometimes it was a great nuisance, but sometimes it could bring about the kind of spontaneity that results in a memorable scene like this one in Pierrot le Fou, when Godard suggested they should drive the car into the sea.

The car is American, a Ford Galaxie Sunliner, the same model driven by the gangsters at the end of Vivre sa vie. Today the stringent safety requirements of movie-making would ensure a great deal of planning, harnesses and lifebelts, but Jean Paul Belmondo just turned off the road, bounced across the beach, and launched the car into the Mediterranean.

Film by Spike Geilinger and Cinestre Films for 蜜芽传媒 Arts.