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Breathless (DVD)
Landmark French movie that turns the tragi-comic story of a minor crim (Belmondo), obsessed with both Bogart and an aspiring American journo (Seberg), into a major masterpiece of fickle hedonism. Crafted with elusive spontaneity, Godard's nervy style still looks as good as ever.
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Optimum Breathless [1959]
Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), an ex-airline steward turned hoodlum, steals a car and heads to Paris. Discovering a gun in the car's glove department, he uses it to shoot and kill a cop who tries to wave him down. He wants to escape to Italy with his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg), but the police are after him, and he is distracted by all the pleasures Paris has to offer.<p>Story-wise, Jean-Luc Godard's <I>A Bout De Souffle</I> (1960) (aka <I>Breathless</I>) is pretty thin, but as its director always proclaimed, you don't need much in the way of narrative to make a movie. Sometimes a girl and a gun are quite enough. The effortlessly cool and laconic Belmondo mirrors the director's mischief and flamboyance. With his fat cigarette stub perched on his bottom lip, his shades, his felt hat and white socks, he looks like a cross between a left-bank intellectual and an American gumshoe (perhaps his beloved Bogart). With her close-cropped hair and New York <I>Herald Tribune</I> T-shirt, his girlfriend (Jean Seberg) is equally stylish. A Hollywood star (she had appeared in the lead in Otto Preminger's <I>Saint Joan</I> in 1957 when she was still a teenager), the Iowa-born Seberg is turned by Godard into the lithe embodiment of European radical chic.<p>The film has a spontaneity that studio-bound offerings of the time missed by a mile. Cameraman Raoul Coutard uses natural light and real locations whenever possible. Lots of the pet tricks in the movie--jump cuts, whip pans and improvised tracking shots--have been copied relentlessly by imitators ever since. <I>A Bout De Souffle</I>, though, is unique: anarchic, liberating and hugely stylish, the best film around now, as its trailer proclaimed. It made Godard, almost overnight, into the world's most discussed, interviewed and quoted filmmaker. --<I>Geoffrey Macnab</I><p><B >On the DVD:</B> Godard's greatest movie has been lovingly transferred to disc by Optimum, and comes with several extras including trailers and production notes and an old Godard short, <I>Charlotte Et Son Jules</I>, also starring the swaggering, arrogant Belmondo. --<I>Geoffrey Macnab</I>
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Breathless Summer
From the author of "The Long Road" and "A Tracing of Angels", this novel, set in London at the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851, tells the story of Erica Curtis, a young girl inspired by the things she sees there. But romance soon changes her life. author: Minton, Mary; publisher: Severn Ho.Publrs.
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Breathless [1983]
<I>Breathless</I>, Jim McBride's 1983 remake of <I>Au Bout de Souffle</I> rewrites Godard's existential hipster as a vain, style-obsessed hood and in the process loses some of the point. Godard's hero was a translation and productive misunderstanding of a quintessentially American sort of delinquent; because it is a retranslation, Gere's intelligent, nervy performance as Jesse Lujack suffers by comparison, however admirable it is taken in itself. McBride's direction strokes Gere's face and body lovingly--his every foxy smile, or glance at himself in a mirror, is played for passionate significance. This is also a good-looking film: the back alleys of LA and sunset over the Mojave desert have rarely looked as good. Valerie Kaprisky's Monica is inevitably given secondary importance; the decision to make the woman who goes along with Jesse's wild final ride on a whim an exchange student makes her at once more and less like her equivalent in the Godard--she has a touching exoticism that is at the same time somehow beside the point. The DVD includes the original theatrical trailer. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Breathless (China Press)
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Breathless
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A Bout De Souffle
Jean-Luc Goddard's amazing first film which had an almost revolutionary impact when it was first released. Belmondo is Michel Poiccard, a swaggering, wiry, tough guy who steals and car and drives through the country, shooting and killing a motorcycle cop who pulls him over. He spends the rest of the movie on the run but cannot resist meeting up with an old American girlfriend in Paris.
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Breathless
On the run from the law, street hustler Jesse Lujack looks up his dream girl Monique in L.A. to persuade her to flee to Mexico with him. A mesmerising, steamy remake of Godard's A BOUT DE SOUFFLE with Gere at his breathtaking best.
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BREATHLESS
author: ; publisher: BMG
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BREATHLESS
author: CAMEL; publisher: LOND
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BREATHLESS
15 author: DRAMA; publisher: ELEV
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I`M Breathless
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I'M BREATHLESS
author: MADONNA; publisher: WEA
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Pocket Books Breathless
Pages: 389, Paperback, Pocket Books
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Erotictales Publications Breathless
Pages: 236, Paperback, Erotictales Publications
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Silhouette Books Breathless Passion: AND Total Package (Silhouette Desire S.)
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Methuen Publishing Ltd A Breathless Hush: The MCC Anthology of Cricket Verse
Pages: 352, Hardcover, Methuen Publishing Ltd
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Silhouette Books Remembering One Wild Night: AND Breathless for the Bachelor (Silhouette Desire S.)
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Breathless Hush, A
An Anthology of the finest cricket verse of the last 200 years, including contributions from Arthur Conan Doyle, E.V. Lucas, Francis Thompson and Neville Cardus, and several previously unpublished works. author: ; publisher: Methuen
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Silhouette Books Breathless Passion (Silhouette Desire)
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Hal Leonard Corp Kenny GBreathless
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Words@Woodmere Viewing The Breathless Corpse: Coroners and Inquests in Victorian Leeds
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