Breathless - Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg (Blu-ray - 11/15/2016) [Special Edition / The Criterion Collection]

The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the boulevards of Paris. Their relationship develops as Michel hides out from a dragnet. Breathless uses the famous techniques of the French New Wave: location shooting, improvised dialogue, and a loose narrative form. In addition Godard uses his characteristic jump cuts, deliberate "mismatches" between shots, and references to the history of cinema, art, and music. Much of the film's vigor comes from collisions between popular and high culture: Godard shows us pinups and portraits of women by Picasso and Renoir, and the soundtrack includes both Mozart's clarinet concerto and snippets of French pop radio. When Breathless was first released, audiences and critics responded to the burst of energy it gave the French cinema; it won numerous international awards and became an unexpected box-office sensation.

Condition:NEW.

Product details:
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard
Format: Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: November 15, 2016
Run Time: 90 minutes

Special Features:
Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Goddard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville; Interviews from 2007 with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker; Two video essays: filmmaker Mark Rappaport's Jean Seberg and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's "Breathless" as Criticism; Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède, an eighty-minute 1993 French documentary about the making of Breathless, featuring members of the cast and crew; Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short film by Godard featuring Belmondo ; Trailer

Cast & Crew:
Jean-Paul Belmondo Michel Poiccard
Jean Seberg Patricia Franchini
Daniel Boulanger Police Inspector
Jean-Pierre Melville Parvulesco
Liliane David Minouche
Henri-Jacques Huet Antonio Berrutti
Van Doude Journalist
Roger Hanin Carl Zombach
Liliane Robin Minouche
Francois Moreuil Cameraman
Jean-Louis Richard Journalist
Richard Balducci Tolmatchoff
Philippe de Broca Actor
Claude Mansard Used-Car Dealer
Jean Domarchi Drunk
Michel Fabre Plainclothesman

Technical Credits:
Jean-Luc Godard Director,Screenwriter
Raoul Coutard Cinematographer
Georges de Beauregard Producer
Cecile Decugis Editor
Lila Herman Editor
Pierre Rissient Asst. Director
Martial Solal Score Composer
François Truffaut Original Story