Breathless
Sign in to save1960 French film by Jean-Luc Godard
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.
Released: 1960-03-1690 minDir: Jean-Luc GodardDrama, Crime
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
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
7.6/10
95,230 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
96/100
- 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
Key dates
- Published
- 16 March 1960
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Award
- Prix Jean Vigo
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- French
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Screenwriter
- François Truffaut
- Cast member
- Van Doude
- Composer
- Martial Solal
- Producer
- Georges de Beauregard
Article
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.