 | MOVIE #1,555 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.18.24 This Richard Gere performance is something: a truly loathsome guy who also manages to be painfully goofy. Does the movie want us to think he's cool, though? That's the question (it's not really a question: if you think the answer’s yes you're a psychopath). They also use Philip Glass’s music throughout which just undercuts the vibe and creates a tonal dissonance that is baffling. I haven’t seen the original classic Godard picture (remedying this with an upcoming Director Focus soon, stay tuned!), but I can’t imagine it’s anything like this. Look at this Ace Ventura-ass shower hair… |
Say what you will of Breathless (1983) but I’m certain this is the only movie that has two characters reciting comic books to each dramatically set to Philip Glass and that’s… something?
But look, we’re here for the Hong and so the Hong ye shall get…
That’s his only scene. So brief. But still so good.
The movie ends with the female lead just changing her mind and calling the cops on him, but we do get to see Richard Gere sing Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Breathless”* set to MORE Philip Glass (why???) as we close on a freeze frame with him picking up a gun and probably about to get blown to pieces by the police…
This is too wacky to hate, but not good enough (or fun enough) to love.
*It's no surprise that one of director Jim McBride's subsequent films was Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire! (1989).
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Breathless is a 1983 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Jim McBride, written by McBride and L. M. Kit Carson, and starring Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky. It is a remake of the 1960 French film of the same name directed by Jean-Luc Godard and written by Godard and François Truffaut. The original film is about an American woman and a French criminal in Paris, while the remake is vice versa in Los Angeles. It was released on May 13, 1983.
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