Directed by the legendary Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless (1960), also known as À bout de souffle, lit is a French crime drama movie. With its audacious visual style and compelling narrative, it forever ...

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A small-time crook kills a policeman and races into the arms of his sometimes-girlfriend, who can’t decide if he’s worth the trouble. That’s about all there is to “Breathless,” Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 ...

Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless,” whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, has died at ...

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Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (2025) tries to capture the filming process of one of French New Wave’s most influential films — Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960).

What does Godard mean to us in 2008? It’s a question that’s surely been asked, or could have been asked, in any given year since 1960, but it’s one worth asking again now, certainly on the occasion of ...

FILE - Film director Jean-Luc Godard smokes at Cannes festival, France on May 25, 1982. Director Jean-Luc Godard, an icon of French New Wave film who revolutionized popular 1960s cinema, has died, ...

BREATHLESS is not playing at this year’s Classic French Film Festival, but St. Louis classic French film fans get to see it on the big screen anyway! It’s part of the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum’s ...