In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
The French New Wave was terribly important to me and to Warren Beatty, who was the driving energy of the picture, and we were terribly influenced by the French New Wave, by Truffaut and Godard. We were seeing films like Breathless, and it was revolutionary. It broke all the rules and conventions that were so prevalent in American filmmaking.