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Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), an ex-airline steward turned hoodlum, steals a car ... more
and heads to Paris. Discovering a gun in the car's glove department, he uses it to shoot and kill a cop who tries to wave him down. He wants to escape to Italy with his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg), but the police are after him, and he is distracted by all the pleasures Paris has to offer.Story-wise, Jean-Luc Godard'sA Bout De Souffle(1960) (akaBreathless) is pretty thin, but as its director always proclaimed, you don't need much in the way of narrative to make a movie. Sometimes a girl and a gun are quite enough. The effortlessly cool and laconic Belmondo mirrors the director's mischief and flamboyance. With his fat cigarette stub perched on his bottom lip, his shades, his felt hat and white socks, he looks like a cross between a left-bank intellectual and an American gumshoe (perhaps his beloved Bogart). With her close-cropped hair and New YorkHerald TribuneT-shirt, his girlfriend (Jean Seberg) is equally stylish. A Hollywood star (she had appeared in the lead inOtto Preminger'sSaint Joanin 1957 when she was still a teenager), the Iowa-born Seberg is turned by Godard into the lithe embodiment of European radical chic.The film has a spontaneity that studio-bound offerings of the time missed by a mile. Cameraman Raoul Coutard uses natural light and real locations whenever possible. Lots of the pet tricks in the movie--jump cuts, whip pans and improvised tracking shots--have been copied relentlessly by imitators ever since.A Bout De Souffle, though, is unique: anarchic, liberating and hugely stylish, "the best film around now", as its trailer proclaimed. It made Godard, almost overnight, into "the world's most discussed, interviewed and quoted filmmaker". --Geoffrey MacnabOn the DVD:Godard's greatest movie has been lovingly transferred to disc by Optimum, and comes with several extras including trailers and production notes and an old Godard short,Charlotte Et Son Jules, also starring the swaggering, arrogant Belmondo. --Geoffrey Macnab
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Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), an ex-airline steward turned hoodlum, steals a car ... more
and heads to Paris. Discovering a gun in the car's glove department, he uses it to shoot and kill a cop who tries to wave him down. He wants to escape to Italy with his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg), but the police are after him, and he is distracted by all the pleasures Paris has to offer.Story-wise, Jean-Luc Godard'sA Bout De Souffle(1960) (akaBreathless) is pretty thin, but as its director always proclaimed, you don't need much in the way of narrative to make a movie. Sometimes a girl and a gun are quite enough. The effortlessly cool and laconic Belmondo mirrors the director's mischief and flamboyance. With his fat cigarette stub perched on his bottom lip, his shades, his felt hat and white socks, he looks like a cross between a left-bank intellectual and an American gumshoe (perhaps his beloved Bogart). With her close-cropped hair and New YorkHerald TribuneT-shirt, his girlfriend (Jean Seberg) is equally stylish. A Hollywood star (she had appeared in the lead inOtto Preminger'sSaint Joanin 1957 when she was still a teenager), the Iowa-born Seberg is turned by Godard into the lithe embodiment of European radical chic.The film has a spontaneity that studio-bound offerings of the time missed by a mile. Cameraman Raoul Coutard uses natural light and real locations whenever possible. Lots of the pet tricks in the movie--jump cuts, whip pans and improvised tracking shots--have been copied relentlessly by imitators ever since.A Bout De Souffle, though, is unique: anarchic, liberating and hugely stylish, "the best film around now", as its trailer proclaimed. It made Godard, almost overnight, into "the world's most discussed, interviewed and quoted filmmaker". --Geoffrey MacnabOn the DVD:Godard's greatest movie has been lovingly transferred to disc by Optimum, and comes with several extras including trailers and production notes and an old Godard short,Charlotte Et Son Jules, also starring the swaggering, arrogant Belmondo. --Geoffrey Macnab
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Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), an ex-airline steward turned hoodlum, steals a car ... more
and heads to Paris. Discovering a gun in the car's glove department, he uses it to shoot and kill a cop who tries to wave him down. He wants to escape to Italy with his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg), but the police are after him, and he is distracted by all the pleasures Paris has to offer.Story-wise, Jean-Luc Godard'sA Bout De Souffle(1960) (akaBreathless) is pretty thin, but as its director always proclaimed, you don't need much in the way of narrative to make a movie. Sometimes a girl and a gun are quite enough. The effortlessly cool and laconic Belmondo mirrors the director's mischief and flamboyance. With his fat cigarette stub perched on his bottom lip, his shades, his felt hat and white socks, he looks like a cross between a left-bank intellectual and an American gumshoe (perhaps his beloved Bogart). With her close-cropped hair and New YorkHerald TribuneT-shirt, his girlfriend (Jean Seberg) is equally stylish. A Hollywood star (she had appeared in the lead in Otto Preminger'sSaint Joanin 1957 when she was still a teenager), the Iowa-born Seberg is turned by Godard into the lithe embodiment of European radical chic.The film has a spontaneity that studio-bound offerings of the time missed by a mile. Cameraman Raoul Coutard uses natural light and real locations whenever possible. Lots of the pet tricks in the movie--jump cuts, whip pans and improvised tracking shots--have been copied relentlessly by imitators ever since.A Bout De Souffle, though, is unique: anarchic, liberating and hugely stylish, "the best film around now", as its trailer proclaimed. It made Godard, almost overnight, into "the world's most discussed, interviewed and quoted filmmaker". --Geoffrey MacnabOn the DVD:Godard's greatest movie has been lovingly transferred to disc by Optimum, and comes with several extras including trailers and production notes and an old Godard short,Charlotte Et Son Jules, also starring the swaggering, arrogant Belmondo. --Geoffrey Macnab
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Breathless, Jim McBride's 1983 remake ofAu Bout de Soufflerewrites Godard's existential ... more
hipster as a vain, style-obsessed hood and in the process loses some of the point. Godard's hero was a translation and productive misunderstanding of a quintessentially American sort of delinquent; because it is a retranslation, Gere's intelligent, nervy performance as Jesse Lujack suffers by comparison, however admirable it is taken in itself. McBride's direction strokes Gere's face and body lovingly--his every foxy smile, or glance at himself in a mirror, is played for passionate significance. This is also a good-looking film: the back alleys of LA and sunset over the Mojave desert have rarely looked as good. Valerie Kaprisky's Monica is inevitably given secondary importance; the decision to make the woman who goes along with Jesse's wild final ride on a whim an exchange student makes her at once more and less like her equivalent in the Godard--she has a touching exoticism that is at the same time somehow beside the point. The DVD includes the original theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney
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Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), an ex-airline steward turned hoodlum, steals a car ... more
and heads to Paris. Discovering a gun in the car's glove department, he uses it to shoot and kill a cop who tries to wave him down. He wants to escape to Italy with his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg), but the police are after him, and he is distracted by all the pleasures Paris has to offer.Story-wise, Jean-Luc Godard'sA Bout De Souffle(1960) (akaBreathless) is pretty thin, but as its director always proclaimed, you don't need much in the way of narrative to make a movie. Sometimes a girl and a gun are quite enough. The effortlessly cool and laconic Belmondo mirrors the director's mischief and flamboyance. With his fat cigarette stub perched on his bottom lip, his shades, his felt hat and white socks, he looks like a cross between a left-bank intellectual and an American gumshoe (perhaps his beloved Bogart). With her close-cropped hair and New YorkHerald TribuneT-shirt, his girlfriend (Jean Seberg) is equally stylish. A Hollywood star (she had appeared in the lead in Otto Preminger'sSaint Joanin 1957 when she was still a teenager), the Iowa-born Seberg is turned by Godard into the lithe embodiment of European radical chic.The film has a spontaneity that studio-bound offerings of the time missed by a mile. Cameraman Raoul Coutard uses natural light and real locations whenever possible. Lots of the pet tricks in the movie--jump cuts, whip pans and improvised tracking shots--have been copied relentlessly by imitators ever since.A Bout De Souffle, though, is unique: anarchic, liberating and hugely stylish, "the best film around now", as its trailer proclaimed. It made Godard, almost overnight, into "the world's most discussed, interviewed and quoted filmmaker". --Geoffrey MacnabOn the DVD:Godard's greatest movie has been lovingly transferred to disc by Optimum, and comes with several extras including trailers and production notes and an old Godard short,Charlotte Et Son Jules, also starring the swaggering, arrogant Belmondo. --Geoffrey Macnab
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Production Year: 1957 - Drama - Director: Leo McCarey - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Cathleen Nesbitt, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Fortunio Bonanova
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: A true classic Disadvantages: Subtitles and in French
BOUT DE SOUFFLE (BREATHLESS)
FILM ONLY REVIEW
Although made in 1960 this film is filmed in black and white despite the use of colour coming into use in the film industry in 1935 .
A Bout de Souffle (transalated to Breathless in English) = is part crime noir, part romantic thriller and basically a good old fashioned chase
The film is about petty, foul-mouthed criminal Michel Pioccard (played by 26-year-old Jean-Paul Belmondo's) , who is obsessed with the film star, Humphrey Bogart . He steals a car and in the process kills the policeman following him.
He goes on the run with a young American journalist, living in Paris, Patricia Franchini,( played by Jean Seberg).
Michel appears to be in love with Patricia, but she remains non-commital. Then Patricia discovers Michel?s terrible secret.
The couple go though ...
Advantages: A wonderful classic which will never go out of date. Disadvantages: Wierd plot line, in fact barely any plot line, strange characters! Subtitled.
Film Only Review
A Bout De Souffle (translated to Breathless in English)
Details:
Directed By: Jean Luc Goddard
Release Date: 7 February 1961
Runtime: 90 minutes
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Starring:
Jean-Paul Delmondo
Jean Seberg
Plot:
Filmed in black and white despite the use of colour coming into use in the film industry in 1935 with the film Becky Sharp by Rouben Marmoulian (this was the first film which was considered a real full length film, but colour was used before this too between the 1920s and 1930s.)
A Bout de Souffle is about a small time criminal Michel Pioccard, who is living in Paris. He has stolen a car, and in the mix he killed the police officer persuing him, no longer a small time thief, he then tries to persuade a young American journalist working in Paris to run away to Italy ...
Advantages: Good pop tunes, nice vocals Disadvantages: a few space fillers on the album
Best song - U got me so
Worst song - Melt the snow
You'll like this if - you like Justin Timberlake, you are a fan of X Factor, you like easy pop
When Shayne Ward won X Factor a few years ago I hated him. So smarmy looking and just another male solo artist set to croon other peoples songs in rubbish covers. Right? WRONG
Shayne's second album is a great peice of pop. Most people will know the soppy track 'Breathless' from the charts as well as 'U hang up' and 'If thats ok with you' (which didnt do so well). My personal favourite on the album however is 'U got me so' which is an upbeat dancey song which could easily have been done by the likes of Justin Timberlake.
The album is a good mix of slow, heartfelt tunes and poppy dance tracks which are really enjoyable. The only down point on this album is that there are ...
A streetwise male hustler has an affair with a brilliant college student which culminates in a desperate flight to Mexico when he falls foul of the law. A remake of Jean-Luc Godard's masterpiece 'A Bout de Souffle'.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
MGM ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
19/03/2001
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
19871 DVD
Barcode
5050070005134
Languages
Main Language
English
Dubbed Language
French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitle Language
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Hearing Impaired Language
English, German
Technical information
Special Features
Interactive Menu Screens And Chapter Selection, Original Theatrical Trailer
Aspect Ratio
4:3, 1.85 Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital Mono
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital Mono English French German Italian Spanish
DVD Description
A remake of the Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 classic, BREATHLESS features Richard Gere as Jesse Lujack, a cocky two-bit hood on the lam for accidentally killing a cop. During this time, he begins an affair with Monica Poiccard (Valerie Kaprisky), a brilliant French college student. Despite being wanted by the law, Jesse continues to commit petty crimes. Eventually, his past indiscretions catch up to him....
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