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Member Mondays: Breathless

À bout de souffle

Cool and detached, this is a French New Wave game-changer.

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  • Director

    Jean-Luc Godard

  • With

    Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger

  • France 1960. 90min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    12A

  • With English subtitles

Exuberantly youthful and innovative, Breathless nods to the past but has its eye on the future. A Bogart-idolising car thief, on the run after killing a cop, turns to his American girlfriend for help but begins to question her loyalties. Godard dispensed with the conventions of cinematic grammar, breaking the rules in some style while adopting a familiar lovers-on-the-run narrative. Six decades on, the film still sparkles with mischievous wit and wondrous invention.