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Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism modelled on his hero, Humphrey Bogart... Read more

Starring	Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville, Laszlo Szabo
Director	Jean-Luc Godard
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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  - 1
  The day the New Wave began
  
  Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, shot on a tiny budget, makes a virtue of necessity.
  
  The hand-held camera and monochrome film stock were all... read more »
  
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  - Scribbler
  - East Sussex
  - 20 May 2004 at 20:44
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  - 0
  Zoot Alors!
  
  He loves a ciggie the boy. Jesus God. And everyone else in the film. zoot alors zoot alors !!! !
  
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- 1103744
- - woods1
  - 9 reviews
  - 18 Mar 2012 at 20:09
- - 0
  - 7
  Rubbish
  
  What an absolute load of rubbish.
  
  Watch a lot of French films which are nearly always 4 and 5 *.
  
  This was like watching paint dry. Gave it... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Ilminster , Somerset
  - 14 Feb 2012 at 09:49
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  - 5
  Good but poorly cut
  
  It is effortlessly cool and very french and I would have rated it higher but it is edited in a really irritating way.
  
  There are some excellent long ... read more »
  
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- - LMazzini
  - 2 reviews
  - 16 Jan 2012 at 22:48
- - 0
  - 0
  brilliant brilliant
  
  Stunning, Belmondo is everything ands more, Godard dircets with aplomb, this film is a timeless classic, my ex-wife introduced me to it and I will be forever ... read more »
  
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- - Colonel1968
  - 138 reviews
  - 20 Jul 2011 at 13:14
- - 0
  - 5
  c'est ennuyeux
  
  dont believe the hype ........ vintage poop .... i thought id enjoy the imagery and style but no - i disengaged after about 30 minutes into it and lost the will... read more »
  
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- 999563
- - nachonietzsche
  - 7 reviews
  - united kingdom
  - 01 Jun 2011 at 22:00
- - 4
  - 4
  Meandering and boring
  
  I know that this is a highly regarded film and it may be that when it was made it was ground-breaking in that it filmed on the streets of Paris in what feels ... read more »
  
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  - Innerleithen
  - 05 Dec 2010 at 17:04
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  - 3
  Not over-rated at all.
  
  Being a 'film fan' i should have probably watched this along time ago but always being told i had to see it made me do the opposite. i never wanted the ... read more »
  
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- - thebishmeister
  - 35 reviews
  - Brizzle
  - 15 Nov 2010 at 14:12
- - 2
  - 0
  Style over substance?
  
  Criminal drives to Paris, kills Policeman on way, tries to get part time American girlfriend to go to Italy with him.
  
  Very chic Jean-Luc Godard film ... read more »
  
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- - Bassman71
  - 459 reviews
  - Didsbury, England
  - 20 Aug 2010 at 16:39
- - 4
  - 3
  A bit dull
  
  I didn't get it really.... I found this very tedious, and despite the English title it was far from racy. I was expecting something remarkable, full of ... read more »
  
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- - jaed
  - 35 reviews
  - Pembroke
  - 05 Oct 2009 at 14:19
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  - 0
  breathless
  
  Pretentious and annoying but worth a view if youre interested in the history of cinema and particularly the evolution of french film .
  
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  - EDINBURGH
  - 26 Jun 2009 at 12:13
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  - 1
  The day the New Wave began
  
  Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, shot on a tiny budget, makes a virtue of necessity.
  
  The hand-held camera and monochrome film stock were all... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Scribbler
  - East Sussex
  - 20 May 2004 at 20:44
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  - 4
  The Coolest Film Ever Made........
  
  It is hard to believe that this film was made in 1959. OK it's in black & white and the clothes are 50's, but the film itself is years ahead of that... read more »
  
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- - Hurdlemagurdle
  - 77 reviews
  - Scotland
  - 02 Jun 2004 at 10:28
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  Pure 60's cool
  
  Godard's debut feature is a ground-breaking classic that still feels suprisingly fresh today (possibly because today's youngbloods are still ... read more »
  
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- - Melon
  - East Sussex
  - 23 Jun 2004 at 16:05
- - 5
  - 0
  Cinema changed for ever
  
  With this low budget debut feature Godard introduced a new style of filming to the world of the movies. The story is not much: the young Jean-Paul Belmondo, ... read more »
  
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- - Zamy
  - 552 reviews
  - London
  - 19 Sep 2005 at 16:41
- - 5
  - 1
  Godard at his best
  
  One of Godard's early works which beats his later work hands down, the original Breathless tells the story of a relationship in Paris and features the best ... read more »
  
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- - Mike39
  - London
  - 08 Jun 2005 at 12:21
- - 5
  - 2
  Chic, stylish and cool
  
  So very French, so very Goddard.
  
  The Nouvelle Vague was launched largely by this ground breaking film, with its radical editing techniques, not seen ... read more »
  
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- - sam19661
  - South Yorkshire
  - 26 Feb 2004 at 16:10
- - 4
  - 0
  Help Needed
  
  This is clearly an important, ground-breaking and very stylish film. The opening twenty minutes or so with Belmondo in his car is superb, as are the sequences ... read more »
  
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  - FrankIV
  - 423 reviews
  - Cirencester, England
  - 22 Feb 2005 at 17:45
- - 4
  - 1
  Worth a revisit
  
  I would imagine many of us watched "Breathless" (or other films of its ilk) in Uni and, while enjoying it, perhaps didn't get the whole picture, ... read more »
  
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- - Burgie
  - Surrey
  - 27 Mar 2004 at 21:59
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  As French Films go..
  
  this one is in the league of 'Le souffle' and 'L'homme du train'. They have a sort of slice of life appeal to them and the story is always ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - England
  - 11 Feb 2004 at 14:12
- - 3
  - 1
  Things of the 60's
  
  It is not hard to imagine why Breathless made such a big impression on world cinema. The style of film-making, fast moving hand-held cameras, always using ... read more »
  
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- - THEBLUES
  - HANTS
  - 30 Mar 2005 at 07:06

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