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À bout de souffle = Breathless  Cover Image DVD DVD

À bout de souffle = Breathless

Summary: A small-time criminal kills a police officer, setting in motion a tragic series of events for both himself and his American girlfriend.

Item details

  • ISBN: 1934121924
  • ISBN: 9781934121924
  • Physical Description: videodisc
    2 videodiscs (90 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (79 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
  • Edition: Full screen.
  • Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007]

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
Credits from booklet.
"© Les Films Georges de Beauregard - S.N.C."--Container.
Special features: Disc 1. Excerpts from interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard, actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville recorded for French television between 1960-1964; trailer. Disc 2. "Coutard and Rissient" video interview with Coutard & assistant director Pierre Rissient; "Pennebaker on 'Breathless" video interview with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker; "Jean Seberg" video essay by Mark Rappaport; "Breathless as criticism" video essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum; "Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède" making-of documentary with members of the cast & crew (1993, 78 min.); "Charlotte et son Jules" short film by Godard starring Belmondo (1959, 13 min.). Booklet. "Breathless then and now" by scholar Dudley Andrew; "Godard in his own words" selections from statements & interviews by Godard from 1959-1962; "Breathless in progress"; "Truffaut treatment" original film treatment translated by Ellen Sowchek; "Godard scenario" translated by Dory O'Brien for Dudley Andrew's book Breathless.
Formatted Contents Note: Disc one. Feature film ; archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg and Jean-Pierre Melville ; French theatrical trailer ; new English subtitles -- Disc two. New video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient and filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker ; New video essays by Mark Rappaport and Jonathan Rosenbaum ; "Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède," an 80 minute French documentary on the making of "Breathless" ; "Charlotte et son Jules," a 1959 short by Godard, starring Belmondo.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; assistant director, Pierre Rissient ; music, Martial Solal ; editor, Cécile Decugis.
Participant or Performer Note: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Van Doude, Liliane David, Michel Fabre, Jean-Pierre Melville, Claude Mansard, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Balducci; with appearances by Philippe de Broca, Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet, Jean Herman, André S. Labarthe.
System Details Note:
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital monoaural.
Language Note:
In French with optional English subtitles.
Subject: Paris
Criminals Drama
Police murders Drama
Man-woman relationships Drama
Fugitives from justice Drama
Paris (France) Drama
Criminals
Fugitives from justice
Man-woman relationships
Police murders
France Paris
Amerikanerin
Dreierbeziehung
Junger Mann
Genre: Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Gangster films.
New wave films.
Feature films.
Gangster films.
Gangster drama.
Personal/independent works.
Interview.
Documentaries and factual works.
Adaptations.
French films.
French new wave films.
Crime films.
New wave films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Gangster films.
Foreign films.

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