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Pierrot le fou (1965) More at IMDbPro »

• Director Jean-Luc Godard allegedly shot the film without a script. See also À bout de souffle (1960).
  
  
• One of the witnesses who notices Ferdinand and Marianne in Nice is called Lazlo Kovaks. This is the alias of Michel Poiccard in "À bout de soufflé" and also the name of Belmondo's character in À double tour (1959).
  
  
• Godard said of Pierrot Le Fou that "it is not really a film, it's an attempt at cinema. Life is the subject, with [Cinema]Scope and color as its attributes...In short, life filling the screen as a tap fills bathtub that is simultaneously emptying at the same rate."
  
  
• Despite continual claims that Godard shot the majority of his films without scripts or preparation, actress Anna Karina has subsequently claimed that they were in fact very carefully planned out to the smallest of details, with an almost obsessive level of perfectionism.
  
  
• Godard originally wanted to shoot the film in English with Richard Burton and Sylvie Vartan as the two main characters.
  
  

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