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Breathless - (A Bout de Souffle)
1960 -
France - 90 min. -
Feature,
B&W
Director:
Jean-Luc Godard
Cast:
Jean-Paul
Belmondo,
Jean Seberg,
Van Doude,
Henri-Jacques Huet,
Roger Hanin.
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
- Lang.: French - Sub. English
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(dos días - two days)
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Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
The first feature film directed by
Jean-Luc Godard
and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave,
Breathless is
story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for
killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International
Herald Tribune along the boulevards of Paris. Their relationship develops as
Michel hides out from a dragnet.
Breathless
uses the famous techniques of the French New Wave: location shooting,
improvised dialogue, and a loose narrative form. In addition Godard uses his
characteristic jump cuts, deliberate "mismatches" between shots, and
references to the history of cinema, art, and music. Much of the film's vigor
comes from collisions between popular and high culture: Godard shows us pinups
and portraits of women by Picasso and Renoir, and the soundtrack includes both
Mozart's clarinet concerto and snippets of French pop radio. When
Breathless
was first released, audiences and critics responded to the burst of energy it
gave the French cinema; it won numerous international awards and became an
unexpected box-office sensation.
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