A bout de souffle
Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Poiccard steals a car in Marseille to get to Paris. On the way he kills a policeman. Once he gets to the capital he moves in with Patricia Franchini, who tells him she is pregnant. Soon the papers publish a photo of Michel and someone recognises him...
With : Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Henri-Jacques Huet, Daniel Boulanger, Roger Hanin, Jean-Pierre Melville
Screenplay : Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut
Image : Raoul Coutard
Sound : Jacques Maumont
Editing : Cécile Decugis
Music : Martial Solal
Screenplay : Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut
Image : Raoul Coutard
Sound : Jacques Maumont
Editing : Cécile Decugis
Music : Martial Solal
Production : Imperia Films, SNC
Distribution: Ciné Classic
Distribution: Ciné Classic
A real source of inspiration for the young filmmakers of the New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard gave Jean-Pierre Melville a role in A bout de souffle (Breathless), a film which looked to another way of making films. "I accepted to play Parvulesco to make Godard happy. He wrote me a letter to ask me to play in his film. ‘Try and talk about women in the way in which you usually talk to me about them'. And that's what I did. When playing the role I took inspiration from Nabokov – who I'd seen in a TV interview – being, like him, fine, pretentious, self-important, uncynical, naïve..." (J-P Melville).