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Breathless
Breathless is a 1960 French crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a wandering criminal named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend Patricia. The film was Godard's first feature-length work and represented Belmondo's breakthrough as an actor.
Plot
Michel is a youthful, dangerous criminal who models himself on the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots and kills a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. Penniless and on the run from the police, he turns to an American love interest, Patricia, a student and aspiring journalist, who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the boulevards of Paris. The ambivalent Patricia unwittingly hides him in her apartment as he simultaneously tries to seduce her and call in a loan to fund their escape to Italy. Patricia says she is pregnant, probably with Michel's child. She learns that Michel is on the run when questioned by the police. Eventually she betrays him, but before the police arrive, she tells Michel what she has done. He is somewhat resigned to a life in prison, and does not try to escape at first. The police shoot him in the street, and after running along the block, he dies "à bout de souffle" ("out of breath").
More details
| author | François Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Avenue des Champs-Élysées Marseille Paris rue Campagne-Première |
| director | Jean-Luc Godard |
| editor | Cécile Decugis |
| events | free will human condition individual and society liberty love Outsider role |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | aspiring journalist country road criterion collection disgust follow humphrey bogart love interest new york herald tribune on the run police inspector question run stealing a car |
| musicBy | Martial Solal |
| producer | Georges de Beauregard |
| productionCompany | Les Films Impéria |
| publisher | Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie |
| recordedAt | Avenue des Champs-Élysées Cinéma Mac-Mahon Marseille rue Campagne-Première |