À Bout de Souffle (1960)

Jean-Luc Godard's first feature still looks like it's breaking a whole lot of rules 40 years on. Basically it's a classic chase movie. The action is set off when a young hood Michel Poiccard (his alias is Laszlo Kovacs – in tribute to the great cinematographer of the same name), who adores Humphrey Bogart (the screen persona, that is), kills a cop and goes on the run with a young American girl, the iconic Patricia Franchini, played by Jean Seberg. 26-year-old Jean-Paul Belmondo's performance as the hood marks the real beginning to an extraordinary career as the biggest French star since Jean Gabin.

Breathless was instantly hailed as a truly revolutionary movie and the logical outcome of the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) rejection of what they called 'Le Cinema de Papa' (Dad's Cinema).

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Movie Soundtrack (Martial Solal)

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