BREATHLESS
| 1960 – 90′ – Drama, Thriller, Crime, Classic.
Written by: Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut.
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard.
Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henry-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Van Doude, Claude Mansard, Liliane Dreyfus, Jean Douchet, Philippe de Broca.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 1960 (Winner Silver Bear Prize). Winner Jean Vigo Prize 1960.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinema. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.