Breathless
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Sunday 23rd May 2021
CLASSIC 4pm |
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FRANCE
CRIME DRAMA 1960 / 99 MINS / PG Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg (Language: French with English subtitles) |
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Michel is a dangerous criminal who models himself on the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, he shoots and kills a policeman. Penniless and on the run, he turns to an American love interest, Patricia, a student and aspiring journalist. Patricia unwittingly hides him in her apartment but learns that Michel is on the run when questioned by the police. Eventually she betrays him, but tells Michel what she has done. Resigned to a life in prison, he does not try to escape at first but the police shoot him in the street, and after running along the block, he dies "à bout de souffle" ("out of breath").
Breathless is one of the earliest and more influential examples of French New Wave.
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