On impulse, Ferdinand abandons his bourgeois existence with his wife and child to take off with Marianne, an old flame. Being pursued by foreign thugs, they embark on a haphazard crime spree, a crazy adventure involving fast cars, mysterious gangsters, and a Mediterranean idyll that turns sour.

Cinema, love, politics, art, war: Godard’s obsessions explode in a supernova of color and emotion in this, possibly his funniest and most tragic film. This New Wave pinnacle, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, famously inspired a fifteen-year-old Chantal Akerman to become a filmmaker.