费迪南德(让-保罗·贝尔蒙多 Jean Paul Belmondo 饰)经受着一段糟糕的婚姻,又不幸被公司开除。他在一个无趣的聚会上遇见前女友玛丽安娜(安娜·卡里娜 Anna Karina 饰),重燃旧情。厌烦一切的他决定抛妻弃子同她一起逃离。他跟着玛丽安娜去了她的公寓 ,发现一具尸体,接着很快发现她正在被黑帮追杀。在相处期间,玛丽安娜给费迪南德取了个昵称:皮埃罗。他们开车奔向南方,一路上疯狂抢杀。当他们到了法国,两人关系开始紧张。皮埃罗不再读书、思考、写日记,玛丽安娜也厌倦了这种生活,坚持要回城里。他们在一个夜店里遇到黑帮,混乱中两人失散了。皮埃罗疯狂寻找玛丽安娜,两人最终重聚。玛丽安娜利用皮埃罗得到一箱钱,之后逃走去找自己真正的男友——之前她多次提到的哥哥。皮埃罗开枪打死玛丽安娜和她的男友,将自己的脸涂成蓝色,身上绑上炸药。最后一秒,他后悔了,试图摁灭导火索,但是失败了,炸药砰地一声爆炸了。
本片获得1965年威尼斯电影节金狮奖提名。
Joachim 是一个生活在巴黎、事业成功的电视编剧。四十岁生日的临晨,他决定放弃一切——孩子、友人、敌人、爱情与遗憾——去美国从零开始。之后,他带领“新滑稽艳舞团”(New Burlesque )回到故乡进行巡演。艳舞团团员因Joachim 而对法国巴黎充满向往。幽默的表演和脱衣舞娘丰满的身材令男女老少沉迷不已。尽管下榻的旅馆平庸不堪,使用的电梯音乐(musique d’ascenseur )乏善可陈,又缺乏资金,女演员依然营造出了新奇、热情而欢乐的气氛。但是,他们决定在巴黎演出压轴戏,将巡演推向高潮的梦想破裂了:Joachim 的老“朋友”背叛了他,取消了其预定的演戏场所。巴黎之行似乎注定来去匆匆,过去种种伤感的回忆突然被揭开……
Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind - his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets to start a new life in America. But he returns with a team of New Burlesque strip-tease performers whom he has filled with romantic dreams of a tour of France, of Paris!
Traveling from town to town, despite the cheap hotel rooms and lack of money, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism that wins an enthusiastic response from men and women alike.
But their dream of a tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform. An obligatory return journey to the capital violently reopens the old wounds of his past...