Subversives. The directors of the French New Wave truly subverted the cinematic world. From the mid '50s to the end of the '60s, the new approach they developed swept through the culture of film. They would explode traditional methods of storytelling, the celebrity cult, film editing and music and the relationship with the viewer, while also making the director, the auteur, into the omnipotent sovereign over the film. It is at the same time a rebellious ideology that captivated a new generation of filmmakers who had not lived through the war. Its impact can still be felt to this day.
The two most powerful icons of the French New Wave are Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, although it would be possible to spend weeks talking about the others too. Godard's 1965 film Pierrot le Fou is the story of the romantic adventures of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Anna Karina), as they run off together. And it's also much more: turning against a world of hypocrisy, a reinterpretation of freedom and breaking out from the safe bulwarks of the stale bourgeois world. Rebellion that has not lost its force even after half a century.

This film screening is taking place with the support of the Institut Français.


Presented by: Müpa Budapest