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Breathless
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1960 French film by Jean-Luc Godard
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*Breathless*, originally titled *À bout de souffle*, is a 1960 French drama and crime film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The screenwriters were Godard and François Truffaut, with production handled by Georges de Beauregard. The cast includes Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, and Jean-Pierre Melville. Raoul Coutard served as director of photography, Martial Solal composed the music, and Claude Chabrol was the production designer. The film is presented in black-and-white and was produced by Les Films Impéria, Les Productions Georges de Beauregard, and SNC.
The narrative is set in Paris, Marseille, and the avenue des Champs-Élysées, which also served as filming locations. The story explores themes of love, liberty, the human condition, and free will. The film has a runtime of 87 or 90 minutes, depending on the source, and was released on March 16, 1960. It was distributed by UGC and Netflix in video on demand format.
Critically, the film holds an IMDb rating of 7.6 based on 95,660 votes and a Metascore of 96. It received a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for one BAFTA Award, with five wins and four nominations in total. The film has been referenced by 343 other encyclopedia articles.
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Film · TMDB
7.5A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Cast
- Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
- Jean Seberg as Patricia Franchini
- Daniel Boulanger as Police Inspector Vital
- Henri-Jacques Huet as Antonio Berrutti
- Roger Hanin as Carl Zubart
- Van Doude as American Journalist, Patricia's Friend
Themes
- hotel room
- dying and death
- newspaper
- journalist
- friendship
- paris, france
- fight
- loss of loved one
- gun
- car thief
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
95,230 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
96/100
- Year
- 1960
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 5 wins & 4 nominations total
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Key facts
- French
- À bout de souffle
- Directed by
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Screenplay by
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Story by
- François Truffaut
- Produced by
- Georges de Beauregard
- Starring
- Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean Seberg Henri-Jacques Huet [ fr ] Liliane Dreyfus [ fr ] Claude Mansard [ fr ] Van Doude [ fr ] Daniel Boulanger
- Cinematography
- Raoul Coutard
- Edited by
- Cécile Decugis
- Music by
- Martial Solal
- Production company
- Les Films Impéria
- Distributed by
- Société nouvelle de cinématographie
- Release date
- 16 March 1960 ( 1960-03-16 )
- Running time
- 90 minutes
- Country
- France
- Languages
- French English
- Budget
- FRF 400,000(US$80,000)
- Box office
- 2,295,912 admissions (France)
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Encyclopedic overview
Breathless (French: À bout de souffle, lit. 'Out of Breath') is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. 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.
Breathless is an influential example of French New Wave (nouvelle vague) cinema. 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.
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