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The product is a new and sealed DVD of the film "Breathless" directed by Jean-Luc Godard. This 50th Anniversary Edition features actors Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Jean-Paul Belmondo, with a runtime of 86 minutes. The DVD includes English subtitles and is presented in black and white, making it a must-have for fans of drama and classic French cinema. Free postage and packaging adds value to this special edition release from 2010.
Features50th Anniversary Edition, Black & White, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureFrance
Additional InformationGodard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism modelled on his hero, Humphrey Bogart. BREATHLESS is the arguable cornerstone of the French New Wave, exhibiting the trademark documentary shooting style, natural sound design, and thematic interest in the detritus of American popular culture. (Rereleased theatrically in April, 2000.)
ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - "...[An] homage to American B movies." -- Rating: A, Total Film - ...Forty years on and BREATHLESS remains a stylistic tour de force..., Paul Greengrass - As inspiring, innovative, spare, jagged and cool today as it was the day I first saw it
ScreenwriterJean-Luc Godard
AuthorFranτois Truffaut
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleBreathless
Director of PhotographyRaoul Coutard
Consumer AdviceContains mild sex references, language and violence
I love old movies, and am biased in favour of them. But this one has not aged well. One of the first 'New Wave' French movies I think it must have had a 'pioneering' or shock value. But this aspect has lost its potency. The acting is perfectly adequate, but serves no useful purpose here. I think that one can only approach this movie from a historical direction, as there is little else to recommend it. Strangely, another 'New Wave' groundbreaking movie has stood up far better to the passage of time, indeed has improved with age: 'The 400 Blows'