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Breathless ( French: À bout de souffle, lit. 'Out of Breath') is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a wandering criminal named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend Patricia.
Breathless: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. With Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Van Doude, Jean-Luc Godard. A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
- (88K)
- Crime, Drama
- Jean-Luc Godard
- 1961-02-07
The movie was a crucial influence during Hollywood's 1967-1974 golden age. You cannot even begin to count the characters played by Pacino, Beatty, Nicholson, Penn, who are directly descended from Jean-Paul Belmondo's insouciant killer Michel.
Aug 20, 2022 · With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same. Written & Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
- 90 min
- 37.8K
- slojinksi
Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film Breathless not only launched the French New Wave and made the director’s name forever synonymous with French art cinema—it also made a star out of its leading man, the theretofore unknown Jean-Paul Belmondo.
- Patricia Franchini
Mar 17, 2024 · To understand Breathless(aka À bout de souffle), you must understand Godard—a task which seems impossible, given Godard’s own admission that he often has contradictory thoughts, given his disgust of traditional storytelling, his embracement of non-linear narratives.
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The car thief Michel Poiccard kills a policeman on road RN7 between Marseille and Paris. He continues to Paris, where someone owes him money, and where he has fallen in love with Patricia Franchini, a young American woman, who is going to study at Sorbonne.