À bout de souffle AKA Breathless (1960) - classic French crime drama directed by Jean-Luc Godard in his debute, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg
Rating 7.7/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: French/English
Country: France
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Michel Poiccard a.k.a. Laszlo Kovacs
Jean Seberg ... Patricia Franchini
Van Doude ... Self
Jean-Luc Godard ... The Snitch
Richard Balducci ... Tolmatchoff(uncredited)
Daniel Boulanger ... Police Inspector Vital (uncredited)
José Bénazéraf ... Man in a White Car (uncredited)
Jean Domarchi ... A Drunk (uncredited)
Description: Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.
Screens:
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Also a set of extras included:
* "Breathless as Criticism" - Jonathan Rosenbaum's film esssay compiling clips and explaining the various cultural, literary, artistic and cinematic references Godard makes in Breathless (in English, 11:09 min)
* "Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede" - An early '90s French television program that seeks out the original locations from Breathless, as well as finding cast and crew, in order to get as close to the flashpoint that was the film as possible. Those interviewed include Belmondo, Claude Chabrol, Coutard, even Godard shows up, ever so briefly, as a voice on the phone. He hangs up on the interviewer almost immediately (in French, with English subtitles, 1:18:32 h)
* Contemporary interviews with Raoul Coutard and assistant director Pierre Rissient - Two separate interviews woven together of both gentlemen reminiscing about Godard and the making of Breahtless (in French, with English subtitles, 22:29 min)
* Interview with D.A. Pennebaker - The influential documentarian (Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back, Depeche Mode 101) relates his experience meeting Godard and explores his assertion that Breathless was "a documentary about Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg." (in English, 10:32 min)
* Interviews - Several period interviews with Godard, Belmondo, Seberg and director Jean-Pierre Melville, who has a cameo in Breathless as the pretentious author Parvulesco (in French, with English subtitles, 27:02 min)
* "Jean Seberg" - A new biographical study of the actress by Mark Rappaport, director of the documentary "From the Journals of Jean Seberg". He uses still photos and clips from promotional films and interviews to chronicle the various cresting waves of her tragic life and career (in English, with subtitles, 18:56 min)
* Trailer (2:01 min)
Video and audio information:
Video : 1.56 GB, 2482 Kbps, 24 fps, 658x480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 115/67/127 MB (main/Studio Canal 2.0 alternative track/commentary), 179/104/196 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR/CBR
Subtitles (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese Mandarin closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, posters and screenshots included
Triple audio track information
This movie contains three audio tracks, one is original French and others are Studio Canal 2.0 alternative track and commentary by film critic David Sterritt. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track, main on Track 1, alternative track on Track 2 and commentary on Track 3)