BREATHLESS 1960 | JEAN PAUL BELMONDO & JEAN SEBERG | Jean-Luc Godard
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Date: 2023-04-25

Breathless(1960)
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
À bout de souffle, lit.  'Out of Breath'
French crime drama film 
It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a wandering criminal named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend Patricia. The film was Godard's first feature-length work and represented Belmondo's breakthrough as an actor.

CAST:
Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michel Poiccard/Laszlo Kovacs
Jean Seberg as Patricia Franchini
Liliane Dreyfus as Liliane
Daniel Boulanger as Police Inspector Vital
Henri-Jacques Huet as Antonio Berruti
Roger Hanin as Carl Zumbach
Van Doude as Van Doude


Breathless is an influential example of French New Wave (nouvelle vague) cinema.[5] Along with François Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour, both released a year earlier, it brought international attention to new styles of French filmmaking. At the time, Breathless attracted much attention for its bold visual style, which included then unconventional use of jump cuts.

Upon its initial release in France, the film attracted over two million viewers. It has since been considered one of the best films ever made, appearing in Sight & Sound magazine's decennial polls of filmmakers and critics on the subject on multiple occasions. In May 2010, a fully restored version of the film was released in the United States to coincide with the film's 50th anniversary.

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