Original Title: À bout de souffle
France • Crime Drama • Year: 1960 • Running time: 90 mins
Language: French / English
Synopsys:
Petty thug Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) considers himself a suave bad guy in the manner of Humphrey Bogart, but panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car. On the lam, he turns to his aspiring journalist girlfriend, Patricia (Jean Seberg), hiding out in her Paris apartment while he tries to pull together enough money to get the pair to Italy. But when Patricia learns that her boyfriend is being investigated for murder, she begins to question her loyalties.
There is simply no other film which demonstrates so perfectly what it feels like to be young and in love.
Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Alphaville (1965) / Band of Outsiders (1965) / Contempt (1962)
Writers: Claude Chabrol • Jean-Luc Godard • François Truffaut
Main Cast:
| Jean-Paul Belmondo | Michel Poiccard a.k.a. Laszlo Kovacs |
| Jean Seberg | Patricia Franchini |
| Daniel Boulanger | Police Inspector Vital |
| Jean-Luc Godard | The Snitch (uncredited) |
(for full cast list, additional technical information and reviews, please visit the Breathless (A Bout pages in IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes)