Movie
Breathless
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Overview
Wild! Violent! Outspoken and Honest!
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Cast
Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
Patricia Franchini
Police Inspector Vital
Antonio Berrutti
Carl Zubart
American Journalist, Patricia's Friend
Claudius Mansard
Liliane / Minouche
Police Inspector #2
Parvulesco the Writer
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Reviews
A key film of the late Fifties/early Sixties French New Wave, À bout de souffle (Breathless) opens with suave lowlife Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) stealing a car. When he's caught speeding on the way to Paris and pursued by the police, Michel kills the officer. Desperate...
Jean-Paul Belmondo spends much of this film in just his boxers after his "Poiccard/Kovacs" character pinches a car, kills the pursuing police officer and the ends up taking refuge with his new journalism student friend "Patricia" (Jean Seberg). She's not quite aware of the exten...