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Breathless
Directed by
Jean-Luc Godard
Not Rated
1960
90m
Drama
,
Crime
7.7
95%
90%
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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.
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Cast of Breathless
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
Jean Seberg
Patricia Franchini
Daniel Boulanger
Police Inspector Vital
Henri-Jacques Huet
Antonio Berrutti
Roger Hanin
Carl Zubart
Van Doude
American Journalist, Patricia's Friend
Claude Mansard
Claudius Mansard
Liliane Dreyfus
Liliane / Minouche
Michel Fabre
Police Inspector #2
Jean-Pierre Melville
Parvulesco the Writer
Jean-Luc Godard
The Snitch
Richard Balducci
Tolmatchoff
André S. Labarthe
Journalist at Orly
François Moreuil
Journalist at Orly
Jacques Lourcelles
Liliane Robin
Minouche
Gérard Brach
Photographer (uncredited)
Philippe de Broca
A Journalist (uncredited)
José Bénazéraf
Man in a White Car (uncredited)
Jean Domarchi
A Drunk (uncredited)
Jean Douchet
A Journalist (uncredited)
Raymond Huntley
A Journalist (uncredited)
Louiguy
(uncredited)
Michel Mourlet
Audience in the Movie Theater (uncredited)
Guido Orlando
(uncredited)
Madame Paul
(uncredited)
Jean-Louis Richard
A Journalist (uncredited)
Jacques Serguine
(uncredited)
Jacques Siclier
(uncredited)
Virginie Ullmann
(uncredited)
Emile Villion
(uncredited)
Breathless Ratings & Reviews
djagg
April 8, 2025
“Do you think about death? I do. All the time.” “What’s ‘bonkers?’” “That’s me.” The handheld indie camerawork is lovely and seeing all the extras gawk at the crew is hilarious. Loved the editing especially regarding the dialogue-heavy scenes. Either inspired Noé or is just French lol The music is great and hits all the beats perfectly. Keeps it upbeat too! Often! Funniest earnest high-five in cinema Watched via Criterion Channel free week
Village Voice
Oliver Stone
Nine years ago, I fell in love with Breathless. Time has aged her since, but poems of chaos, having little structure, are gloriously free from decay.
The New Yorker
Roger Angell
The camera in Breathless, which was wielded by Raoul Coutard, is jumpy, fluid, irritable, and comic -- alive with glimpses, sudden turns, rude stares, and angry changes of mood.
New York Post
Archer Winsten
It is a thin story, filled to the brim with extraordinary character of the modem, wild, criminal youth, as exemplified by Belmondo.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
With the appearance of Breathless, we have a film that is new, aesthetically and morally.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Breathless jumps to its own rhythm and pokes holes in its idols even as it worships them.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
On its fiftieth birthday Breathless remains fresh and exciting, although its revolutionary approach has long since been absorbed into the mainstream, and the years do show on it a bit.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Even 50 years later, it's easy feel how vivid a game-changer Breathless must have been when it arrived.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
This movie liberated the cinema -- the stories you could tell and the ways you could tell them -- as clearly and cleanly as Picasso freed painting and the Sex Pistols rebooted rock.
Washington Post
Sarah Kaufman
Breathless has the proportions wrong. Too much rambling, too little point.
At the Movies
Michael Phillips
Breathless feels like it was [made] tomorrow.
At the Movies
A.O. Scott
It's like a bullet from the future of movies.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
One of the most famous and influential movies ever made.
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Breathless makes alienation look like it was a lot more fun in 1960 than in the ponderous gravitas or ante-upping brutality of indie film today.
Slant Magazine
Matthew Connolly
The actors don't inhabit characters so much as occupy a middle ground where play-acting and fan ardor replace the embodiment of set emotions and personality traits.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Shot on a shoestring and none the worse for it, Jean-Luc Godard's gritty and engaging first feature had an almost revolutionary impact when first released in 1960.
Variety
Variety Staff
This film, a first pic by a film critic, shows the immediate influence of Yank actioners and socio-psycho thrillers but has its own personal style.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Modern movies begin here, with Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless in 1960. No debut film since Citizen Kane in 1942 has been as influential.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
Say this, in sum, for Breathless: it is certainly no cliché, in any area or sense of the word. It is more a chunk of raw drama, graphically and artfully torn with appropriately ragged edges out of the tough underbelly of modern metropolitan life.
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