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Four French Films: Breathless
A bout de souffle
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Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
France, 1960
Black & White
90 Minutes
French with English subtitles
Show Times:
Thu., Jul. 29 5:00 PM
Fri., Jul. 30 7:00 PM
Sat., Jul. 31 3:00 PM
Sun., Aug. 1 5:00 PM
50th Anniversary Restored 35mm Print
Director Jean-Luc Godard´s (b. 1930) debut film heralded the French New Wave movement not only with its unorthodox editing and handheld photography, but also its nonjudgmental portrayal of amoral youth. Godard paid homage to the 1940s American gangster B-movies and developed the plot from a news item supplied by François Truffaut. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg play two young lovers on the run after Belmondo has killed a cop and stolen a car. Seberg gained a cult following with her portrayal of a guileless newspaper delivery girl.
Visit http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/05/21/movies/1247467887456/the-influences-of-breathless.html?nl=movies&emc=mub1 for an audio slideshow on the movies that influenced Godard´s Breathless.
"Breathless still seems very much a live influence; it has remained continuously available . . . The iconic images of Jean-Paul Belmondo in hat and shades and Jean Seberg in New York Herald Tribune t-shirt have never gone away make it easy to pretend it was all the day before yesterday." — Film Comment magazine
Generous support has been received from the Cultural Offices of the French Embassy and the Consulate General of France in Houston. Special thanks to Dominique Chastres, cultural attaché at the Consulate General of France in Houston, and the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts.
 Click here to view the film´s trailer.
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