Jean-Paul Sartre declared this a masterpiece at an early Paris screening, and there's certainly no doubt that this is the quintessential existentialist movie in style as well as attitude.... In short, mandatory viewing.
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Breathless [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo , Jean Seberg , Daniel Boulanger , Jean-Pierre Melville , Liliane Robin
Blu-ray
(Special Edition / Wide Screen / Restored / Subtitled)
$39.99
- Release Date: 11/15/2016
- UPC: 0715515190015
- Original Release: 1960
- Rating: NR
- Source: THE CRITERION COLLECTION, INC
- Region Code: A
- Presentation: [B&W]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 5400
- Sales rank: 3,856
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Dedicated to Monogram Pictures, Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature fused the raw energy of American gangster movies with the lyrical ingenuity of French cinema to kick-start a revolution in international filmmaking. Shot without a script on a shoestring budget, Breathless stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michel, a Parisian hood on the lam after killing a policeman. He soon winds up in the bed of an American woman (played by Jean Seberg), who ultimately turns him in to the authorities. Establishing many of Godard's recurring themes -- the love-hate relationship with American culture, the macho bravado, and the obsession with female beauty and deceit -- as well as the free-wheeling, modernist, jump-cutting narrative technique, Breathless is raw and vital, a giddy celebration of film itself. It revolutionized the medium upon its initial release and looks none the worse for wear decades on.
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