A time capsule of 1960s revolutionary fervour, Jean-Luc Godard’s black-comedy follows a bourgeois couple who drive out into the countryside with murderous intent. They are willing to kill to secure their inheritance from an ailing relative, but before, they must contend with hippie cannibals, cinema’s longest traffic jam and the apparent collapse of Western civilisation. In Godard’s scorched-earth, all-surface road film, both the polite norms of consumer society and romantic revolutionary ideals are reduced to wreckage.