Breathless

Breathless

Breathless
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Actor: Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Philippe de Broca, Richard Balducci, Van Doude
Brand: Genius
Primary Contributor: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Primary Contributor: Seberg, Jean
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Fox Lorber

Movie Reviews of Breathless

Movie Review: classic
Summary: 5 Stars

Choosing between this 1960 origional or the 1980s Richard Gere version of Breatless, it is this, no contest.

This is arguabley the first French New Wave film, and contains the ingrediants. Lots of jump cuts, ten minute shots, uniuqe camara angles.
Watch the scene where Belmondo steals the car, or where he is in the room with Jean Seaberg, where the same shot is held for the whole dialouge, panning camara.

Breathless is a pretty simple crime film: steel car, accidental murder, elude police, romantic interest. But it is the way that Godard uses film technique to tell the story that makes it work. You see a old stroy told in a fresh way.

These shooting and editing techniques are now used constantly on TV to make the medium look hip, but in 1960, these were truely experimental and enhanced the STORY. Godard remebered here, story came first.

Summary of Breathless

Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
The movie that heralded the French New Wave movement, this lean and exciting 1959 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard (A Woman Is a Woman, Weekend) broke new ground not only in its unorthodox use of editing and hand-held photography, but in its unflinching and nonjudgmental portrayal of amoral youth. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg play two young lovers on the run from the law after Belmondo kills a cop and steals a car. Soon they are on an odyssey through the streets of Paris searching for some money he is owed so that he and his American girlfriend can escape to Italy. As a chase picture it features some startling photography on the streets of Paris, but as a romance it defies expectations, existing as part tragedy and part Bonnie and Clyde crime movie. The result is a wholly original film experience. Inspiring not only a remake starring Richard Gere but numerous films and television series, Breathless is an essential part of motion picture history. --Robert Lane

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