90 mins |
Rated
PG (Sexual references)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Starring Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo
To celebrate the 90th birthday of French New Wave Cinema icon Jean-Luc Godard Academy is playing BREATHLESS, the film that launched the director, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg into the international film scene and changed the way we watched movies from then on!
'Michel, a petty thief, steals a car and impulsively murders a policeman. Hence, he creates an escape plan to hide away in Italy so he pursues his love interest Patricia, to come along with him.'
"There was before BREATHLESS, and there was after BREATHLESS. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same." [Criterion]
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To celebrate the 90th birthday of French New Wave Cinema icon Jean-Luc Godard Academy is playing BREATHLESS, the film that launched the director, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg into the international film scene and changed the way we watched movies from then on!
'Michel, a petty thief, steals a car and impulsively murders a policeman. Hence, he creates an escape plan to hide away in Italy so he pursues his love interest Patricia, to come along with him.'
"There was before BREATHLESS, and there was after BREATHLESS. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same." [Criterion]