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Breathless
Breathless is a 1983 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Jim McBride, written by McBride and L. M. Kit Carson, and starring Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky. It is a remake of the 1960 French film of the same name directed by Jean-Luc Godard and written by Godard and François Truffaut. The original film is about an American woman and a French criminal in Paris, while the remake is vice versa in Los Angeles.
Plot
Jesse Lujack (Richard Gere) is a cocky, hedonistic drifter, and small time car thief, in Las Vegas. He’s obsessed with Silver Surfer comic books, the rock and roll music of Jerry Lee Lewis, and Monica Poiccard (Valérie Kaprisky), a UCLA architecture undergraduate whom he knows only from a weekend fling while she visited Vegas.
More details
| author | Jean-Luc Godard |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Las Vegas Valley |
| director | Jim McBride |
| editor | Rachel Igel Robert Estrin |
| genre | crime drama thriller |
| keywords | breathless car theft car thief comic book drive flee front page groundbreaking jerry lee lewis las vegas los angeles national news obsess porsche reckless driving return home rock rock and roll sex sexual intercourse silver surfer stolen cars the national turn tv news |
| musicBy | Jack Nitzsche |
| producer | Martin Erlichman |
| publisher | Orion Pictures |
| theme | dance neo-noir romantic drama romantic fantasy romantic thriller |