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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Foreign Films Movies, Murder Videos, Classic, Essential Cinema, French, Betrayal, Criterion Collection, On-The-Run, Vanity Fair 50 Greatest Films Of All Time, New Wave | | Starring | Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo | | Director | Jean-Luc Godard | | Director of Photography | Raoul Coutard | | Screenwriter | Jean-Luc Godard | | Story | Francois Truffaut |
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 im as a film writer. The special edition set features a newly restored hi-def digital transfer, archival interviews with Godard, Belmondo, Seberg & Melville; new video interviews with Raoul Coutard, D.A. Pennebaker and lots more. Former "Cahiers du Cinéma" critic Jean-Luc Godard threw everything he had learned from years of movie watching into his debut feature--creating an enormously influential film and a seminal study of existential longing and betrayal. Within the first few minutes, Michel (Belmondo), a foul-mouthed Parisian who idolizes Humphrey Bogart, shoots a police officer and immediately becomes a fugitive on the run. He visits an ex-girlfriend and while casually charming her, he steals her money. He then gallivants through the marvelous streets of 1940s Paris, pursuing Patricia (Seberg), a blond pixie-like American selling the New York Herald Tribune on the Champs-Elysees. Michel is childlike as he pouts and whines in his fruitless attempts to seduce Patricia, then turns cold as ice as he curses her out, racing off to steal a car or meet up with some other thugs. Meanwhile, Patricia seems to seduce everybody with her youth and naivety. She is just 20-years-old, possibly pregnant, and despite the few scattered assignments she does for the paper, she is dreamy and directionless. Even so, she does not refuse Michel, though she won't commit to him. As they follow each other in and out of cafes and boutiques, sailing past the Eiffel Tower and down the grand boulevards in gorgeous stolen cars, we await what is sure to be a tragic ending. Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism modelled on his hero, Humphrey Bogart. BREATHLESS is the arguable cornerstone of the French New Wave, exhibiting the trademark documentary shooting style, natural sound design, and thematic interest in the detritus of American popular culture. (Rereleased theatrically in April, 2000.) First feature film for French director Jean-Luc Godard. Breathless Reviews: "...Forty years on and BREATHLESS remains a stylistic tour de force..."
-- Tom Dawson, Total Film "...[An] homage to American B movies." -- Rating: A
-- Lawrence O'Toole, Entertainment Weekly "...BREATHLESS is just as fresh and startling as it was when it was first released nearly 40 years ago..."
-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "...Its story remains entrancing..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...[T]his outlaw-on-the-lam movie displayed a loose-limbed virtuosity that was both an ode to freedom and a call to arms..."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere "BREATHLESS is about the zeitgeist, and Godard's script is uncannily prescient of the social and sexual upheavals of the ensuing decade."
-- Neil Spencer, Uncut Breathless | List Price | $39.95 (You save $8.70) | | Studio | Criterion Collection | | Orig Year | 1959 | | All Time Sales Rank |  29563  | | CD Universe Part number | 7486538 | | Catalog number | 1716 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Oct 23, 2007 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Bout de Souffle | | Running Time | 90 Minutes | | Additional Info | Criterion Collection | | Movie Details | B&W; Criterion Collection; 2-Disc Set |
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Breathless DVD 2-Disc Set
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: French Theatrical Trailer
Behind the Scenes: Making Of - "Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede" (80 mins)
Short Film - CHARLOTTE ET SON JULES (1959)
Interviews:
1. Jean-Luc Godard - Director
2. Jean-Paul Belmondo - Star
3. Jean Seberg - Star
4. Jean-Pierre Melville - Star
5. Raoul Coutard - Director of Photography
6. Pierre Rissient - Assistant Director
7. D.A. Pennebaker
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