Breathless

MOVIE #1,811 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.12.24 ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴊʟɢ? ʏᴇᴀʜ ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴍᴇ! ᴀ ᴊᴇᴀɴ-ʟᴜᴄ ɢᴏᴅᴀʀᴅ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛᴏʀ ꜰᴏᴄᴜꜱ This is one of the most unique films I've ever seen and it clearly changed the course of cinema. For starters, we'll likely never truly understand how it was made. How did Jean-Luc Godard time-travel to 1983 and seamlessly adapt and produce a remake of a movie that hadn't been made yet? 1983’s Breathless is not as good but we can't deny its importance as source material. The key to it all is Italy, in my opinion. The only character name Godard retained for his version was Berruti. From namediscoveries.com:

The name Berutti may also have occupational origins, referring to someone involved in the production or sale of berets, as "berretto" means "beret" in Italian.

Well, what's more FRENCH than a beret. 🤔 Can you say "full circle" much?

This movie also made me long for the days of fat cigarettes. Nobody smokes a fat-ass cig anymore. Look at this thing. Look at what we've lost…

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Breathless (French: À bout de souffle, lit. 'Out of Breath') is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a wandering criminal named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend Patricia. The film was Godard's first feature-length work and represented Belmondo's breakthrough as an actor. It was released on March 16, 1960.