Where They Went

Pierrot le Fou (1965)

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

A bored Parisian walks out of his marriage and runs south with an old flame on the edge of a gun-running gang, from Paris across France to the Mediterranean coast near Toulon.

  • Travel shown
  • On foot, bike, skis or swimming
  • Not shown on screen
  • Fictional place
  1. 1Cocktail party
    Paris, France
    ≈ 00:02:00
    Stated on screen

    Ferdinand drifts through a vapid party and decides to leave his wife.

  2. 2Marianne's apartment
    Paris, France
    ≈ 00:14:00
    Inferred

    Ferdinand wakes at Marianne's flat to find a corpse, and they slip away from gangsters.

  3. 3Mediterranean shore
    Mediterranean coast of the Var, France
    ≈ 00:40:00
    Inferred

    After driving south they burn one car and drive another into the sea.

  4. 4Ferdinand and Marianne's island hideaway (fictional)
    ≈ 00:50:00
    InferredFictional
  5. 5Toulon, France
    ≈ 01:20:00
    Stated on screen
  6. 6Island villa
    Island off Toulon where the story ends (fictional)
    ≈ 01:40:00
    InferredFictional

The journey in numbers

Distance travelled
756 km
Places
5
Countries
1
Stops
6
  • Car: 704 km
  • Not shown: 39 km
  • Boat: 13 km

Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.

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