FeaturesBlack & White, Animated Chapter Selection\Poster Gallery\Photo Gallery\Original Theatrical Trailer\Full Production Notes\Breathless Jim McBride 1983 Remake Trailer\Charlotte Et Son Jules A Short Film By Jean Luc Godard, 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
Social comment aspects has much less impact now. Still entertaining as an out of date French crime thriller. Where as I find 'his' appeal much less than at the time. 'She' is a much more interesting and sympatric character in the film.
In real life too where she was hounded to her premature death by American CIA agents.