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Breathless

1960 1h 30m Jean-Luc Godard

Breathless

★ 7.6 IMDb

Drama Crime Made in Europe

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.

Writers Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet

DP Raoul Coutard

Production Designer Claude Chabrol

Music Martial Solal

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Breathless by Armond White, Cineaste MUBI Podcast: "Breathless"—Jean Seberg & Jean-Luc Godard Dress Down Film and Fashion by MUBI Podcast, MUBI Notebook "Breathless": Fool and Cool by Firat Yücel, FIPRESCI

On Jean-Luc Godard

Godard and Gorin's left politics, 1967-1972, by Julia Lesage, Jump Cut Talking Pictures: Jean-Luc Godard's Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television by Phil Coldiron, Cinema Scope Bite-Sized Godard: Read Along with the French New Wave Auteur by Jonathan Rosenbaum, MUBI Notebook Karina and Godard and Godard and Karina by Bart Versteirt, photogénie Godard and Sound: Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard, by Albertine Fox by Caitríona Walsh, Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard by D.B. Jones, Screening the Past PAUL GRIVAS: “THE IMAGES ARE THERE FOR THE TAKING, YOU JUST GOT TO PICK THEM UP” by José Sarmiento Hinojosa, Desistfilm Inside the design world of Jean-Luc Godard by Louis Spong, Little White Lies

In conversation with other films

Histoire(s) du cinéma: Letters to Jean-Luc Godard by Notebook, MUBI Notebook

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Awards & Festivals

Nominated Golden Bear

Won Silver Bear for Best Director

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