Catch the Wave - ‘Breathless’

France 1960; Director Jean-Luc Goddard, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg; 90 min

Godard’s first feature and the film that (perhaps misleadingly) came to define the novelty of the New Wave. Petty crook and poseur Michel Poiccard kills a traffic cop and goes on the run. He takes refuge with American paper-seller and aspirant journalist, Patricia. Godard’s elliptical story-telling and the hero’s seeming amorality were equally puzzling - even shocking - to audiences at the time. Now it is a classic.

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