Breathless (À bout de souffle) (15)
Godard's debut spearheaded the French New Wave and cinema was never the same again
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Jean Seberg, Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1960, 1 hour 30 minutes, subtitles, B/W
Thur 2 April 11.30pm - The Courtyard Hereford
Godard's debut spearheaded the French New Wave, one of the most influential and stylish movements in the history of cinema. Belmondo plays a cool, arrogant petty criminal on the run in Paris whose affair with a capricious naïve American is his undoing. The story is the stuff of the American B-movies that Godard adored, but the way it's told is something else - fresh, foolish and fun!
"Seminal, a film to see and see again" The Observer
External Links: Internet Movie Database / Channel 4 Overview / Derek Malcolm's century of film in the Guardian