A bout de Souffle

A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to get a girl to hide in Italy with him. A classic of French cinema, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seburg.

"Breathless has aged well......freshness, sense of discovery, its breakneck energy and wit... the reconstituted fantasy of Goddard's film-going..... at once a homage to and a parody of American action film and poetic transformation of it" Joanthan Baumbach

"As provocative and original as ever .... Goddard's masterpiece" Philip French.

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2hDR_e1o1M

"The film is dedicated to Monograph Pictures, the celebrated B-movie studio on Hollywood's Poverty Row, the camera is handheld, the editing is abrupt and inconsistent, Raoul Coutard's masterful monochrome photography is harsh, hard-edged, reliant on natural light. The much-admired director of existential gangster pictures, Jean-Pierre Melville, makes an appearance as himself, the first of such cameos in a Godard picture, the work of other directors is evoked or alluded to .... and Bogart is a looming presence. We are constantly distanced in the manner of Brecht's alienation effect, a nd told that what we are watching is a film, but also that movies, like our lives, are halls of mirrors"

Philip French Sight and Sound.