Breathless
Synopsis
Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a young petty criminal who models himself on the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. Penniless and on the run from the police, he turns to his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg), a student and aspiring journalist, who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the streets of Paris. The ambivalent Patricia unwittingly hides him in her apartment as he simultaneously tries to seduce her and call in a loan to fund their escape to Italy. At one point, Patricia says she is pregnant with Michel's child. She learns that Michel is on the run when questioned by the police. Eventually, she betrays him, but before the police arrive, she tells Michel what she did. He is somewhat resigned to a life in prison, and does not try to escape at first. The police shoot him in the street and, after a prolonged death run, he dies “à bout de souffle” (at breath's end).
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (22)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Les Productions Georges de Beauregard, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC), Les Films Imperia
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distributors : Les Films Imperia, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)
Full credits (16)
- Screenwriters : François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard
- Dialogue Writer : Jean-Luc Godard
- Director of Photography : Raoul Coutard
- Music Composer : Martial Solal
- Assistant Director : Pierre Rissient
- Editor : Cécile Decugis
- Sound Recordist : Jacques Maumont
- Author of original work : François Truffaut
- Producer : Georges De Beauregard
- Original idea : François Truffaut
- Camera Operator : Claude Beausoleil
- Production Manager : Claude Chabrol
- Assistant editor : Lila Herman
- Continuity supervisor : Suzanne Faye
- Still Photographer : Raymond Cauchetier
- Unit Production Manager : Gaston Dona
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Romance
- Themes : Murder
- Production language : French, English
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1959
- French release : 16/03/1960
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 22.275
- Visa issue date : 11/03/1960
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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