Breathless
À bout de souffle
Wild! Violent! Outspoken and Honest!
Overview
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
- Budget
- $80,000
- Production
- Les Films Impéria, Les Productions Georges de Beauregard, SNC
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Cast
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
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
Gérard Brach
Photographer (uncredited)
Philippe de Broca
A Journalist (uncredited)
José Bénazéraf
Man in a White Car (uncredited)
Jean Douchet
A Journalist (uncredited)
Raymond Huntley
A Journalist (uncredited)
Louiguy
(uncredited)
Michel Mourlet
Audience in the Movie Theater (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Producers
- Georges de Beauregard
- Cinematography
- Raoul Coutard
- Composer
- Martial Solal
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CRCulver
September 2, 2018
A key film of the late Fifties/early Sixties French New Wave, <i>À bout de souffle</i> (Breathless) opens with suave lowlife Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) stealing a car. When he's caught speeding on the way to Paris and pursued by the police, Michel kills the officer. Desperate to collect some money owed and make his escape to Italy, he hides out with Patricia (Jean Seberg), an American girl he had slept with once and who is oblivious to the danger he's in. This is one of the most inf…
CinemaSerf
March 14, 2024
Jean-Paul Belmondo spends much of this film in just his boxers after his "Poiccard/Kovacs" character pinches a car, kills the pursuing police officer and the ends up taking refuge with his new journalism student friend "Patricia" (Jean Seberg). She's not quite aware of the extent of the trouble her new beau is in when he sets about trying to convince her that he has some cash coming and that they should go and live in Italy. His identity isn't exactly unknown to the cops either, and with his fac…