Breathless is a film French, emblematic of the “New wave”, carried out by Jean-Luc Godard, left in 1959.

Synopsis

Michel Poiccard, young man insolate mixed in the middle of delinquents and traffickers of Drogue, steals a car to Marseilles to go to Paris. But on the way, during a police control, it panics and kills a police officer who continued it.

Arrived at Paris, it finds the young person student E American E Patricia, with which it has a free love affair. She wants to become Journaliste and, to be able to finance its studies with the Sorbonne, she sells the newspaper Herald Tribune on the Fields-Élysées. All along film, Michel will try to persuade it to sleep again with him, and it will resist to him for a long time by affirming that he really does not like it.

Michel wants to leave the France for the Italy where he thinks of finding refuge. The police force already identified it as being the assassin of the N7 and its photo figure in all the newspapers. Patricia, first of all, does not say anything by love for Michel.

This one meets several delinquent friends to gather its profits accumulated thanks to small crimes. One of these accomplices, feeling betrayed by him, denounces it with the police force. Michel must hide with Patricia in a friend of a friend in the first district. The their departure day before supposed for Italy, Patricia denounces it with the police force. Michel escapes, but is killed by a police officer and collapses with the crossroads of the Rue Countryside-First, “breathless”.

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  • In 1983, the film was the subject of an American remake carried out by Jim McBride, Breathless , made in the USA ( Breathless ), in which the role interpreted by Jean-Paul Belmondo was included by Richard Gere and that of Jean Seberg by Valerie Kaprisky.
  • turning took place from August 17th to September 15th, 1959 in Paris and Marseilles.
  • Jean-Luc Godard appears about the middle of film as an appear.
  • Raymond Cauchetier, photographer of plate:
    • In connection with its collaboration with Godard on the turning of film: First of all, with him, all was improvised or almost. One turned in the streets, in the hotel rooms, with Juste some lamps lighting the ceiling, without sound recording direct. Godard wrote its dialogs on a table of bar, blew their text with the actors during the catches, and stopped turning when it did not have any more ideas. Is delirious complete for holding of the traditional cinema! But the New wave was being born! I found interesting to add to the traditional photographs a kind of report around film. When he saw the boards, the producer showed himself extremely dissatisfied. What is it that this work? You are not paid to do that! I explained to him that it was a personal work. Good, it has says me, but you will pay your expenses of laboratory. The things remained about it there. However it is that these are especially the photographs “except film” which were finally selected for the promotion of film, and which continue to be published a little everywhere, forty years later.
    • In connection with its famous photograph of Belmondo and Seberg (with its tee-shirt Herald Platform) sauntering on the Fields-Élysées: What is good for the cinema is not it always for the photograph. For the sequence of the Fields-Élysées, I preferred, and it was a first, to take along the actors far from crowd, bellow of the avenue, for rejouer the scene. Only the professionals know that this photograph, which made the round the world tour, is not a photograph of film.

Rewards

  • Price Méliès 1960
  • Price Jean-Vigo 1960
  • Festival of Berlin 1960: better put in scene

See too

  • the original screenplay of Truffaut
  • personal File on the film
  • Breathless on Allociné
  • Breathless on Internet Movie Database
  • Image: Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg

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