Spotlight on BREATHLESS
Breathless
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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 that dared to reinvent film language.
Up Next in Breathless
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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.
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Pennebaker on BREATHLESS
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.
