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Breathless - Criterion Collection

starring: Jean Domarchi, Van Doude, Roger Hanin, Henri-Jacques Huet, Claude Mansard
directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515026222
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Criterion Collection
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 5151
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: February 07, 1961



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Description:
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless (A bout de souffle) helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.

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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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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Top Classic
What to write? If you know of the director, you surely own this. If not, and you're interested in ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Godard's Jazzy Groundbreaker Still Packs a Punch and Gets the Luxuriant Criterion Treatment
At the forefront of the French New Wave along with François Truffaut (The 400 Blows), Alain Resnais ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - One of the most overrated films ever
The fact that an artist writes boringly to convey boredom, or childishly to convey puerility, has no ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of Godard's first and best films
This is one of the best (and first) movies made by Godard. It is historic in it's introduction of jump ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - "When the French say a second, they mean five minutes."
Breathless is a great example of French New Wave, a film with innovative camerawork and editing. It does ... Read More

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