248 Breathless

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

One can argue that there is no more influential period in cinema than the French New Wave. Without it there is no cinematic revolution in the seventies. No Scorsese, Bogdanavich or Hal Ashby. Can there be a Reservoir Dogs or Quinten Tarantino without Jean Luc Godard? The odds are, the answer is no. And no other film exemplifies the French New Wave more completely than Jean Luc Godard's groundbreaking masterpiece, Breathless.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is John.
0:02.6	This week on The Sinophiles, Steve Morrison and I are going into the past to 1960 to talk
0:08.9	about a French crime drama film, Breathless.
0:12.3	It's written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and it stars the late great Jean-Paul Belmondo
0:17.5	who we just recently lost a few weeks ago, along on the same day that we lost Michael
0:22.3	Kenneth Williams.
0:23.3	Two fantastic talents lost on the same day and we're doing this in honor of him.
0:28.5	He was very kind to create space for us to do this one in our schedule with a very busy
0:33.4	schedule, but we created space to do this one.
0:36.4	The film basically focuses on Belmondo as a wandering criminal named Michelle who is
0:41.2	trying to seduce his American girlfriend Patricia who's played by Jean Seaburg after
0:45.6	he's killed a cop and stolen a car.
0:48.0	So he's trying to allude the police and the whole time through the movie, he's having
0:52.0	these interesting philosophical, intelligent conversations with Patricia and doing his
0:57.6	best version of Humphrey Bogart.
0:59.8	It's incredible this film.
1:00.8	If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it before we talk about it this
1:04.0	week on The Sinophiles.
1:05.5	Breathless is one of the earliest influential examples of French new wave cinema, along
1:09.9	with Francois Truffauts, The 400 Blows and Alan Rene's Hiroshima Mourna Moore.
1:14.4	I think all three of them are available on Criterion as well for you to pick up.
1:18.2	So please do so if you get a chance.
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