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Breathless DVD

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  • Additional Details
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Run Time: 90 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
  • Language: French
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: October 23, 2007
  • Packaging: 10/23/2007
  • Closed Captioning: No
  • Subtitles: English
  • Audio: FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
  • Director: Jean-Luc Godard
  • Cast: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger
  • Genre: Foreign
  • Color: Black & White
  • Includes:
    Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville
    French theatrical trailer
    New video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker
    New video essays: filmmaker Mark Rappaport's Jean Seberg and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's Breathless As Criticism
    Chambre 12, Hotel De Suede, an eighty-minute French documentary about the making of Breathless, with members of the cast and crew
    Charlotte Et Son Jules, a 1959 short film by Godard, starring Belmondo
    A book featuring an essay by scholar Dudley Andrew, writings by Godard, Francois Truffaut's original film treatment, and Godard's scenario
  • Release Date: 1960
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless (A bout de souffle) helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.

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