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Breathless

Play trailer Poster for Breathless 1961,  1h 30m,  Crime/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 95% 78 Reviews Tomatometer 90% 25,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
95% Tomatometer 78 Reviews 90% Popcornmeter 25,000+ Ratings
Petty thug Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) considers himself a suave bad guy in the manner of Humphrey Bogart, but panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car. On the lam, he turns to his aspiring journalist girlfriend, Patricia (Jean Seberg), hiding out in her Paris apartment while he tries to pull together enough money to get the pair to Italy. But when Patricia learns that her boyfriend is being investigated for murder, she begins to question her loyalties.
Breathless

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Critics Consensus

Breathless rewrote the rules of cinema -- and more than 50 years after its arrival, Jean-Luc Godard's paradigm-shifting classic remains every bit as vital.

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Oliver Stone Village Voice May 2, 2024
Nine years ago, I fell in love with Breathless. Time has aged her since, but poems of chaos, having little structure, are gloriously free from decay. Go to Full Review
Roger Angell The New Yorker Jan 22, 2024
The camera in Breathless, which was wielded by Raoul Coutard, is jumpy, fluid, irritable, and comic -- alive with glimpses, sudden turns, rude stares, and angry changes of mood. Go to Full Review
Archer Winsten New York Post Aug 11, 2022
It is a thin story, filled to the brim with extraordinary character of the modem, wild, criminal youth, as exemplified by Belmondo. Go to Full Review
JD Duran InSession Film Aug 19, 2024
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The cold demeanor of Breathless isn’t very effective and as a result, it feels conceited and in a word; fake. Go to Full Review
David Harris Spectrum Culture Feb 27, 2024
In an era before social media, Breathless presages the hyper-narcissistic age we embody where everyone with a phone and an Instagram account can create and curate whatever type of existence they choose. Go to Full Review
Penelope Gilliatt Observer (UK) Jan 22, 2024
Breathless seems to me the most original, insolently gifted and shattering work the young French directors have, yet produced. Go to Full Review
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Jean-Luc Godard

Director

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Michel Poiccard alias Laszlo Kovacs

Jean Seberg

Patricia Franchini

Daniel Boulanger

Police Inspector

Jean-Pierre Melville

Parvulesco

Henri-Jacques Huet

Antonio Berrutti

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Breathless

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Synopsis Petty thug Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) considers himself a suave bad guy in the manner of Humphrey Bogart, but panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car. On the lam, he turns to his aspiring journalist girlfriend, Patricia (Jean Seberg), hiding out in her Paris apartment while he tries to pull together enough money to get the pair to Italy. But when Patricia learns that her boyfriend is being investigated for murder, she begins to question her loyalties.
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Producer
Georges de Beauregard
Screenwriter
Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut
Production Co
Imperia, Les Films Georges de Beauregard
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 7, 1961, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 29, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA)
$47.1K
Runtime
1h 30m
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