Genres: Foreign, Drama, Criterion Collection, Romance, 60s, France, French Cinema, Romantic Drama, Foreign Drama
Cast: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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 (A bout de souffle) helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.
Language: French
Country of Origin: France
Production Year: 1960
Reviews:
- "Modern movies begin here, with Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless in 1960. No debut film since Citizen Kane has been as influential.", Roger Ebert
- "There's Potemkin, Citizen Cane, and this... Godard's first film.", Leonard Maltin
- "As fresh and startling as it was fifty years ago!", Martin Scorsese
Awards:
- 1960: Winner
- 1960: Winner
- Release Date: Oct 23rd, 2007
- Catalog Number: CC1716DDVD
- UPC: 715515026222
- Rating: Not Rated
- Run Time: 90
- Color Format: Black & White
- Audio: PCM Mono
- Language: French
- 16:9: No
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of Discs: 2
- Closed Captions: No
- Subtitle: English
- Special Features:
Archival interviews with director Godard, and actors Belmondo, Seberg, Melvillei
New, restored high-def digital transfer, approved by DP Raoul Coutard
New video interviews w/ Coutard, asst director Rissient, & D.A. Pennebaker
New video essays
Chambre 12, Hotel du suede, an 80 min. French doc about making of Breathless
Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short by Godard, starring Belmondo
French theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS a booklet feat. writings from Godard, Truffaut's orig. film treatment, more
- Release Date: Sep 14th, 2010
- Catalog Number: CC1939BD
- UPC: 715515063715
- Rating: Not Rated
- Run Time: 90
- Color Format: Black & White
- Audio: PCM Mono
- Language: French
- 16:9: Yes
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Closed Captions: No
- Subtitle: English
- Special Features:
Restored high-definition digital transfer
Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and cast
Video interviews with Coutard, Pierre Rissient, and D. A. Pennebaker
Video essays: one on Jean Seberg and one on Breathless
Chambre 12, Hotel du suede, an eighty-minute documentary
Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short by Godard
French theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring writings by Godard and film historian Dudley Andrew






