For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

It's a waste of time , boring , nonsense , no acting at all , just aimless scenes with no meanings

Godard is a pioneer in unstructured French movie-making. Despite the progress of a classical and chronological plot in Pierrot Le Fou, the way the story is told and the movie footage are quite novel. The story is told by two characters, cartoon inserts and literary references are as important as the scenes, Belmondo directly addresses the public, and the party in the beginning of the movie is shot like a moving fresco. The music has an abrupt ending, in such a way that one gets confused with the limits of the movie's reality and the fiction's reality. The result is a poetic movie shot in poetic light, and highlighted by poetic dialogues, but movie-making becomes a technical and intellectual reflection rather than a memorable and moving story.

Not only Pierrot (Ferdinand) but the whole movie is crazy. A married man returning home from a boring party meets there with a girl with whom he had a case five years before and is supposedly there to babysit his child (or children). He had not seen her since then. They decide then to leave at once and start a car run through the country getting involved in a series of meaningless peripeteia like stealing cars and money, filling the car tank and running without paying, setting a car on fire, entering with another in the sea on a beach and other minor events no less without an apparent reason and cooked through half-sentimental foolish dialogues during which he girl calls the man Pierrot though he keeps telling her that his name is Ferdinand without any reaction from her. We feel there is some story of arms traffic behind all this which is never clearly told or explained. At a certain point she is kidnapped by traffic rogues, kills one of them with a pair of scissors and runs away. Then it's the man who gets caught by the traffic rogues that torture him in order to know where the girl is. Then he is free again (did he escape or was set free by his captors after revealing where the girl is?). Then we see an old Lebanese countess proposing him to go with her on a boat but then the girl meets him again but suddenly escapes with another man that we don't know who he is and they kiss passionately each other. Our Pierrot Ferdinand chases them to the island where they went by boat and shoots and kills them both. The story(?) ends with Pierrot Ferdinand committing suicide in a way that would be funny if it wasn't tragic. He put 2 or 3 dynamite belts around his head but at a certain point he tried unsuccessfully to put off the fuse and we see the explosion in the horizon in the last scene. I have understood that Godard's movies don't have a sense, a clear story or a message. They are worth for what they are worth and their scenes and images are worth for what we see and nothing more which means very little for me. However since he is considered a great movie director by critics probably this is my fault.

A quarter of the way through this film it becomes clear that only about half of what is being said has been translated into captions. Half way through it's apparent that it doesn't matter a whit. Three quarters in you realize that your just watching because Belmondo & Karina are so dang cute and the French language is so very, very musical. If you make it to the end you've learned an important lesson about yourself. Don't ask me what that is, that's your problem.Repeat to make the 10 line quota:A quarter of the way through this film it becomes clear that only about half of what is being said has been translated into captions. Half way through it's apparent that it doesn't matter a whit. Three quarters in you realize that your just watching because Belmondo & Karina are so dang cute and the French language is so very, very musical. If you make it to the end you've learned an important lesson about yourself. Don't ask me what that is, that's your problem.