Breathless
Apr 29 - Apr 30, 2008
(Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1960, 35mm, 90 min)
Jean-Luc Godard's first feature still breaks the rules nearly fifty years on. Twenty-six year-old Jean-Paul Belmondo plays the lip-stroking pug on the run, shooting cops and stealing cars - as well as cash from girlfriend Jean Seberg. With the typically French undertone of femmes vs. hommes, the couple engages in boudoir philosophy, staring contests, and plenty of le smoking. Belmondo's performance as the hood marks the real beginning of an extraordinary career of the biggest French star since Jean Gabin.