Breathless
A film by Jean-Luc Godard
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
There was before BREATHLESS, and there was after BREATHLESS. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard’s debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinéma. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, BREATHLESS (”À bout de souffle”) helped launch the French New Wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.
Critical Reaction
Fifty years on, still the newest movie in town.
—John Powers, VogueREVELATORY! The images yield up details hitherto imperceptible in the prints that were available until now. THIS RESTORATION PROVIDED A WELCOME JOLT OF THE NEW!
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
External Links
- View the trailer
- Roger Ebert’s “Great Movie” Review
- Time Out Chicago review
- New York Times review
- New Yorker review
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Technical Information
- Production Year
- 1960
- Country of Production
- France
- Language
- French with English subtitles
- Running Time
- 90 min
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