Breathless

Name: Breathless
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: February 7, 1961
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 96

1961

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Films Around the World (I) | Release Date: February 7, 1961 | Not Rated

Summary: A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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100

Laurence Boyce

Jean-Luc Godard’s masterpiece stands the test of time, still managing to feel incredibly fresh and exciting. Read full review

100

Roger Ebert

Breathless remains a living movie that retains the power to surprise and involve us after all these years. Read full review

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Matthew Singer

The nouvelle vague was already underway by the time Breathless arrived, but Godard truly codified it here, with his unconventional jump cuts, improvised dialogue and a score blending classical music with French pop. Read full review

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Matthew Connolly

What remains most striking, and most moving, about Godard’s first feature is its sophisticated yet largely guileless faith in the filmic medium, a cinephilia untainted by smugness or cynicism. Read full review

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

There is simply no other film which demonstrates so perfectly what it feels like to be young and in love. Read full review

Pauline Kael

The film is light and playful and off-the-cuff, even a little silly. Yet the giddy, gauche characters who don't give a damn...are not only familiar in an exciting, revealing way, they are terribly attractive.

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There are too many epigrams and a bit too much palaver in all this. However, it is picaresque and has enough insight to keep it from being an out-and-out melodramatic quickie. Read full review

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