{"id":6780,"date":"2010-01-31T19:40:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T03:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2010-01-31T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T03:56:29","slug":"breathless-jean-luc-godard-1960-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6780","title":{"rendered":"Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960): France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 Chain-smoking Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), models himself after\u00a0 his screen idol Humphrey Bogart, with\u00a0the constant and too obvious rubbing of his mouth\u00a0and the ever present Fedora hat.<\/p>\n

Poiccard is a small time crook who steals cars for a living, and is on the lam from the police once he shoots a motorcycle cop.\u00a0 He is attracted to the fresh young Sorbonne student, Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg), and desperately wants her to join him on a trip to\u00a0Nice.<\/p>\n

Franchini, an American\u00a0journalist student, sells the New York Herald Tribune on the streets of Paris and has had a previous fling with Poiccard.\u00a0 She hesitantly agrees, but when she later discovers his picture in the papers, she abruptly rolls on him to the detectives that are tracking him.<\/p>\n

Although Michel is always on the make for Patricia, he proves a deeper love for her when he\u00a0decides not to run, even\u00a0when it becomes clear that Patricia is the one that has turned him in to the cops.<\/p>\n

As the cops are closing in, Michel is offered a gun from a passing friend for which he declines, but is shot down in the street anyway.\u00a0 And there the film ends just as abruptly as it began.<\/p>\n

Breathless<\/em><\/a><\/em> was released on the heels of Truffaut’s 400 Blows and in fact the original story was written by Francois Truffaut, making it one of the\u00a0original hits in the French New Wave.<\/p>\n

Godard shot his film with a single hand-held camera, lending a documentary style effect to the film.\u00a0 It is simplistic, yet sweet and introduces a voyeuristic approach for the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD. \u00a0 Chain-smoking Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), models himself after\u00a0 his screen idol Humphrey Bogart, with\u00a0the constant and too obvious rubbing of his mouth\u00a0and the ever present Fedora hat. Poiccard is a small time crook who steals cars for a living, and is on the lam from the police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}