Bonnie and Clyde follows the real-life criminal couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as they charm and shoot their way through the American Southwest during the 1930s. The film revolutionized Hollywood with its stylized violence, dark humor, and anti-establishment tone, making folk heroes out of its doomed protagonists. Directed by Arthur Penn, it is widely regarded as a landmark of New Hollywood cinema.
Arthur Penn films the lovers as folk heroes and as outlaws. The film invented the modern anti-hero's death scene: bullets, slow motion, sympathy.