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A small time crook, Michel Poiccard, chased by the police after stealing a car, shoots one of them and flees. Back in Paris he finds an American girlfriend and succeeds in seducing her. He convinces her to go to Italy with him. But the police have discovered the murderer’s identity and are on his trail...
The film debut of Jean-Luc Godard started the French new wave of filmmaking - recognized as one of the most stylish and influential movements in film history.
Cigarettes, hats, sunglasses and determined non-conformity make Michel Poiccard (Belmondo) a true cinematic icon. Playing beside the stunning Jean Seberg he smokes his way through a series of sexy gallic exchanges in the ultra cool Paris of the 1960s.
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It was a great surprise to receive the film on time! The film is a must see.
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Jump-cuts,abrasive dialogue,panning shots,the use of real locations filmed on the run,recalls the moment of A Bout de Souffle,50 years ago this month.Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo,a handsome broken-nosed actor and the iconic Jean Seberg,protégé of Otto Preminger.Its director,Jean-Luc Godard,was part of the nouvelle vague,including Truffaut, Melville,Chabrol,Rivette and Rhomer.This was Godard's debut-formerly a Cahiera du Cinema critic-,still looking so fresh and modern,the epitome of cinematic invention, vitality and cool.Shot in high contrast monochrome,rapidly edited, interspersed with quotations from literature,art and philosophy.Belmondo plays the Bogart-imitating Michel,the swaggering,mysoginistic petty criminal anti-hero,who steals a car in the south of France and kills a policeman on the road to Paris,where he takes up with an old girl friend,the well-healed Patricia(Seberg),the young,New York Herald Tribune-selling American in Paris.
Chabrol,who served as supervising producer on `Breathless',famously warned that great subjects rarely make great films.And Godard gnomically said:"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."This was the basis of the brief scenario that Truffaut,an admirer of film noire and pulp fiction,provided for Breathless.The couple talk of lifeand literature in a seedy hotel,make love and visit the movies while he tries to get money owed to him by criminal associates.The police close in,Patricia betrays him.The style is everything,a calculated destruction and remaking of traditional film grammar.The camera is hand-held,the editing is abrupt and inconsistent.Raoul Coutard's masterly monochrome photography is harsh,hard-edged,reliant on natural light.Melville,director of existential gangster pictures,makes an appearance as himself,the first of such cameos in a Godard picture.He evokes other directors,Fuller,Preminger,Aldrich and Bogart's image looms.We are kept at a distance by Brecht's alienation effect,told that we are watching a film,but also that movies,like our lives are halls of mirrors.Godard deliberately created confusion to `achieve a greater possibility of invention',shooting in the busy streets of Paris.This film,like 400 Blows,is a must-see for any true lovers of cinema.In cinemas this June and DVD in September by Optimum Releasing,the 50th anniversary.
Chabrol,who served as supervising producer on `Breathless',famously warned that great subjects rarely make great films.And Godard gnomically said:"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."This was the basis of the brief scenario that Truffaut,an admirer of film noire and pulp fiction,provided for Breathless.The couple talk of lifeand literature in a seedy hotel,make love and visit the movies while he tries to get money owed to him by criminal associates.The police close in,Patricia betrays him.The style is everything,a calculated destruction and remaking of traditional film grammar.The camera is hand-held,the editing is abrupt and inconsistent.Raoul Coutard's masterly monochrome photography is harsh,hard-edged,reliant on natural light.Melville,director of existential gangster pictures,makes an appearance as himself,the first of such cameos in a Godard picture.He evokes other directors,Fuller,Preminger,Aldrich and Bogart's image looms.We are kept at a distance by Brecht's alienation effect,told that we are watching a film,but also that movies,like our lives are halls of mirrors.Godard deliberately created confusion to `achieve a greater possibility of invention',shooting in the busy streets of Paris.This film,like 400 Blows,is a must-see for any true lovers of cinema.In cinemas this June and DVD in September by Optimum Releasing,the 50th anniversary.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This wonderful classic film on DVD is a must for everyone, the extras include a great documentary on the great; Jean Seberg.
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