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.
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.
Director Jean-Luc Godard once described BREATHLESS as “a documentary about Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.” In this 2007 interview, documentary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker explores Godard’s statement.
In this 2007 video essay, film historian and author Jonathan Rosenbaum explores a number of the cinematic and literary references in BREATHLESS, elucidating what Jean-Luc Godard meant when he said he approached filmmaking as criticism.
