BREATHLESS

Wednesday 23 November

10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm

Director Jean Luc Godard

Crime, Drama

French English subtitles

90 minutes

Petty thug Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) considers himself a suave bad guy in the manner of Humphrey Bogart, but panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car. On the lam, he turns to his aspiring journalist girlfriend, Patricia (Jean Seberg), hiding out in her Paris apartment while he tries to pull together enough money to get the pair to Italy. But when Patricia learns that her boyfriend is being investigated for murder, she begins to question her loyalties.

This film has been remastered and the screening is a tribute to Godard who passed away 13 September, 2022

He was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic who rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Demy.

 

Make no mistake about it, this film still deserves its place in the canon of cinema. – Neely Swanson, Easy Reader (California)

Breathless jumps to its own rhythm and pokes holes in its idols even as it worships them. – Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News