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Breathless: The Criterion Collection

DVD - APPROX. 90 MINS. - 1960 - US Rating: NR

Main feature:

Release Oct 23, 2007
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio French: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1960
Genre Film-Noir

Special features:

  • Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville
  • French theatrical trailer
  • New video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker
  • New video essays: filmmaker Mark Rappaport's Jean Seberg and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's Breathless As Criticism
  • Chambre 12, Hotel De Suede, an eighty-minute French documentary about the making of Breathless, with members of the cast and crew
  • Charlotte Et Son Jules, a 1959 short film by Godard, starring Belmondo
  • A book featuring an essay by scholar Dudley Andrew, writings by Godard, Francois Truffaut's original film treatment, and Godard's scenario

Synopsis:

There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Jean-Pierre MelvilleDaniel BoulangerHenri-Jacques HuetJean-Luc GodardJean-Paul BelmondoJean Seberg"Breathless: The Criterion Collection"
Written by Jean-Luc Godardproduced byGeorges De Beauregard
directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Production Year: 1960

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