| Orion Pictures | Release Date: May 13, 1983 |
Starring:
Art Metrano, Garry Goodrow, James Hong, John P. Ryan, Lisa Jane Persky, Richard Gere, Robert Dunn, Valérie Kaprisky, Waldemar Kalinowski, William Tepper
Summary:
When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate- but when will it end?
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But the slickness grows mesmeric and the performance unexpectedly wrenching as each trip Gere takes in a succession of classic cars brings him ever closer to his fate, a fate sealed the moment he drops a gun on top of a Silver Surfer comic while speeding through the desert to the accompaniment of Jerry Lee Lewis in the same type of Porsche that James Dean rode to his death.
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A very stylish and sexy film noir, a tale of obsessive love neatly balanced between exploitation movie and art film.
[23 May 1983, p.54]
Kaprisky, as the young French student, is an unknown in a role too large and complex for her, and there are times when she seems lost in a scene, looking to Gere for guidance. The result is a stylistic exercise without any genuine human concerns we can identify with - and yet, an exercise that does have a command of its style, is good-looking, fun to watch, and develops a certain morbid humor.
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Much like Body Heat, which valorized noirish archetypes instead of examining their original social contexts, Breathless simply has a hard-on for Hollywood lore, as convertibles, rockabilly, and monochromatic lighting are utilized to enshrine dominant legacies rather than invert or, at least, probe them.
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It's foul, with so little left to the imagination that we get a look between his toes. [13 May 1983, p.19]
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