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Breathless

À bout de souffle

1960

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet ...

7.6

22,882

Drama. Romance The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the boulevards of Paris. Their relationship develops as Michel hides out from a dragnet. Breathless uses the famous techniques of the French New Wave: ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"This movie liberated the cinema -- the stories you could tell and the ways you could tell them -- as clearly and cleanly as Picasso freed painting and the Sex Pistols rebooted rock"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There is simply no other film which demonstrates so perfectly what it feels like to be young and in love.(...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Modern movies begin here, with Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless in 1960. No debut film since Citizen Kane in 1942 has been as influential (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"This film, a first pic by a film critic, shows the immediate influence of Yank actioners and socio-psycho thrillers but has its own personal style"	POS
United Kingdom	George Perry BBC	"A landmark film, it forever changed perceptions of cinema (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Matthew Connolly Slant	"It’s not surprising that 'Breathless' remains fresh some 50 years after its Paris premiere (...) Masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"An enervating intro to the French New Wave, this remains one of Godard's finest films (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Gritty and engaging"	POS
Canada	Peter Martin Screen Anarchy	"Still-fresh, still-startling"	POS

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