Title of film : Breathless
Director Name : Jean Luc Godard
Cast & crew :
Producer : Georges de Beauregard
Editor : Cecile Decugis
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Synopsis : Michel is a youthful, dangerous criminal who models himself on the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots and kills a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. Penniless and on the run from the police, he turns to an American love interest, Patricia, a student and aspiring journalist, who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the boulevards of Paris. The ambivalent Patricia unwillingly hides him in her apartment as he simultaneously tries to seduce her and call in a loan to fund their escape to Italy. Patricia says she is pregnant, probably with Michel's child. She learns that Michel is on the run when questioned by the police. Eventually, she betrays him, but before the police arrive, she tells Michel what she has done. He is somewhat resigned to a life in prison and does not try to escape at first. The police shoot him in the street, and after running along the block, he dies "à bout de souffle" ("out of breath")
Director Bio : Jean-Luc Godard (3 Dec 1930—13 Sep 2022) is a celebrated French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and critic. At the age of sixteen, he became so fascinated with cinema, that he failed his baccalaureate examination. Thereafter, he began to spend his time watching films in different cine clubs and hanging out with other films buffs, with whom he later started the French New Wave film movement. At thirty, he made his first feature film, ‘À Bout de Souffle’, which established him as a celebrated director. Thereafter, he continued to make both feature films and shorts, becoming a well-known name in the field of cinema. In introducing New Wave style of filmmaking, he implemented various techniques. Long silence of the characters in presence or absence of surround, emotions expressed through a constant action or a gesture, frequent freeze shots, melodious or orchestrated background score, title cards, and above all, the sweet harmony of French---every single aspect of his films introduces the form of a visual music. As the Italian and French culture of musicals, operas and ballads blend, visual music emerges from none other than France.
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