Breathless
Breathless
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1h 30m
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • France • 1960
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger
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 cinèma.” 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 that cinema would never be the same.
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Spotlight on BREATHLESS
In NOUVELLE VAGUE, Richard Linklater recreates the artistic adventure that gave rise to one oft the most radical and influential films of all time: Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS. Watch Linklater introduce this foundational classic of the French New Wave, a risk-taking work of personal expression t...
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BREATHLESS: Archival Interviews
Presented here are excerpts from interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard, actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, recorded for French television between 1960 and 1964.
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Coutard and Rissient on BREATHLESS
In this 2007 interview, Raoul Coutard, who shot fourteen films for Jean-Luc Godard, and Pierre Rissient, the assistant director on BREATHLESS, recall the production of Godard’s first feature film.
