Breathless (1959)
(A bout de souffle)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 90m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
Synopsis:
A small time hoodlum shoots a policeman in the South of France and drives up to Paris, where he meets an American Herald Tribune salesgirl and begins a carefree romance with her. Meanwhile the forces of justice are closing in.
Review:
Essentially a remake of Quai des brumes done is a style no one had ever seen before: poorly synchronized sound, mismatched edits, banal dialogue and filming inside tightly cramped hotel rooms etc. The point was that the mundane material was freed up by the sheer joy of film-making, where the director was free to do anything he liked, including make a bad movie. It also naturally breathed a love of American culture (Bogart, Seberg herself) and supposedly heralded the Nouvelle Vague, though it was just one of many 'first films' being made at the time. Best viewed as a huge gameplay with the audience, its importance for world cinema is impossible to ignore.
(A bout de souffle)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 90m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
Synopsis:
A small time hoodlum shoots a policeman in the South of France and drives up to Paris, where he meets an American Herald Tribune salesgirl and begins a carefree romance with her. Meanwhile the forces of justice are closing in.
Review:
Essentially a remake of Quai des brumes done is a style no one had ever seen before: poorly synchronized sound, mismatched edits, banal dialogue and filming inside tightly cramped hotel rooms etc. The point was that the mundane material was freed up by the sheer joy of film-making, where the director was free to do anything he liked, including make a bad movie. It also naturally breathed a love of American culture (Bogart, Seberg herself) and supposedly heralded the Nouvelle Vague, though it was just one of many 'first films' being made at the time. Best viewed as a huge gameplay with the audience, its importance for world cinema is impossible to ignore.
(A bout de souffle)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 90m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
Synopsis:
A small time hoodlum shoots a policeman in the South of France and drives up to Paris, where he meets an American Herald Tribune salesgirl and begins a carefree romance with her. Meanwhile the forces of justice are closing in.
Review:
Essentially a remake of Quai des brumes done is a style no one had ever seen before: poorly synchronized sound, mismatched edits, banal dialogue and filming inside tightly cramped hotel rooms etc. The point was that the mundane material was freed up by the sheer joy of film-making, where the director was free to do anything he liked, including make a bad movie. It also naturally breathed a love of American culture (Bogart, Seberg herself) and supposedly heralded the Nouvelle Vague, though it was just one of many 'first films' being made at the time. Best viewed as a huge gameplay with the audience, its importance for world cinema is impossible to ignore.