A bout de souffle [videorecording] / Pretty Pictures ; [director, Jean-Luc Godard ; producer, Georges de Beauregard ; screenplay, Jean-Luc Godard ; based on an original treatment by François Truffaut].
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Standard format (1.33:1).
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
2 videodiscs (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (79 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Van Doude, Liliane David, Michel Fabre, Jean-Pierre Melville, Claude Mansard, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Balducci; with appearances by Philippe de Broca, Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet, Jean Herman, André S. Labarthe. Credits from booklet. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960. Special features (disc 1): excerpts from interviews with Godard, Belmondo, Seberg & Melville (originally recorded for French television between 1960-1964); trailer. Special features (disc 2): "Coutard and Rissient", video interview with Coutard & assistant director Pierre Rissient; "Pennebaker on 'Breathless'", video interview with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker; "Jean Seberg", video essay by Mark Rappaport; "'Breathless' as criticism", video essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum; "Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède," making-of documentary with members of the cast & crew (1993, 78 min.); "Charlotte et son Jules," short film by Godard starring Belmondo (1959, 13 min.). Booklet includes an essay by scholar Dudley Andrew ("'Breathless' then and now"), "Godard in his own words" (selections from statements & interviews by Godard from 1959-1962), Francois Truffaut's original film treatment (as translated by Ellen Sowchek), and Godard's scenario for the film (as translated by Dory O'Brien).
Contents:
Disc one. Feature film ; archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg and Jean-Pierre Melville ; French theatrical trailer ; new English subtitles -- disc two. New video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker ; New video essays by Mark Rappaport and Jonathan Rosenbaum ; "Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède," an 80 minute French documentary on the making of "Breathless" ; "Charlotte et son Jules," a 1959 short by Godard, starring Belmondo.
Summary:
A small-time criminal kills a police officer, setting in motion a tragic series of events for both himself and his American girlfriend.
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