Breathless

Name: Breathless
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Released: 1959
Cast: Roger Hanin, Daniel Boulanger, Jean Seberg, Henri-Jacques Huet, Van Doude

by Jean-Luc Godard1h301959France

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A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Distributor : Studiocanal
- Production Compagny : SNC, Imperia Films, Les Productions Georges de Beauregard
- Photo Director : Raoul Coutard
- Sound Recorder : Jacques Maumont
- Producer : Georges de Beauregard
- Editing : Cécile Decugis
- Original Music : Martial Solal
- Scenario : François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard
- Director : Jean-Luc Godard
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1959
- French release date : 16 mars 1960
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : English

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Michel Hazanavicius
about Breathless
of Jean-Luc Godard
I don't claim any Godard legacy, but he is the only one of the "Nouvelle Vague" directors who continued to reinvent cinema. Deeply, I think "La Nouvelle Vague" is Godard.

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This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
"Nouvelle Vague"
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Breathless

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Credits

Technical details

Bonus exclusive content

Other films

By the same director

Passion

Every Man for Himself

The Power of Speech

From the same year

The 400 Blows

Hiroshima, My Love

Pickpocket

With the same cast

Roger Hanin

Rocco and His Brothers

The Night Affair

Daniel Boulanger

Shoot the Piano Player

The Bride Wore Black

Jean Seberg

Bonjour Tristesse

Henri-Jacques Huet

Max and the Junkmen

Hail the Artist

Van Doude

Je t'aime, je t'aime

Sign of the Lion

Bobby Deerfield

Jean-Luc Godard

Cleo from 5 to 7

Band of Outsiders

Contempt

Jean-Pierre Melville

Two Men in Manhattan

Jean-Paul Belmondo

The Big Risk

That Man from Rio

Pierrot le Fou

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Felix Van Groeningen

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"Nouvelle Vague"