About this title: 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: location shooting, improvised dialogue, and a loose narrative form. In addition Godard uses his characteristic jump cuts, deliberate "mismatches" between ...
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Format: VHS Tape
Studio: Fox Lorber
Date: 2001-10-09
UPC:720917016528
Description: Like New. Shipped w/ Free Delivery Confirmation Original uncut box and tape NOT a Rental from a private collection IN STOCK, IMMEDIATE SHIPPING. read more
Description: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Claude Mansard, Jean-Luc Godard. New in new packaging. 1959 Run time: 90. A carefree Parisian crook falls in love with an American girl, with tragic results. This is the one! Many times better than the Eighties remake. Godard's first film. Produced by Georges de Beauregard. Written by Jean-Luc Godard form an idea by François Truffaut. English subtitles. read more
Format: DVD
Studio: Imperia Release
UPC:045922110215
Description: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane David, Henri-Jacques Huet. Fine in fine packaging. read more
Format: VHS Tape
Studio: Fox Lorber
Date: 2001-10-09
UPC:720917016528
Description: Like New. Shipped with Free Delivery Confirmation IN STOCK IMMEDIATE SHIPPING Original uncut box and tape NOT a Rental from a private collection. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. Collectible, original 2001 Edition. Ex. Library copy. The VHS tape is in very good conditions. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Criterion Collection
Date: 10/23/2007
UPC:715515026222
Description: Jean Domarchi, Van Doude, Roger Hanin, Henri-Jacques Huet, Claude Mansard. New. 1961 Run time: 90. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
Studio: Imperia Release
UPC:715515026222
Description: Jean-Paul Belmondo; Jean Seberg; Daniel Boulanger; Jean-Pierre Melville; Liliane David; Henri-Jacques Huet. New. Run time: 90 mins. Language: French. read more
Description: BRAND NEW. There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless (A bout de souffle) helped launch the French new wave and ... read more
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