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Breathless

À bout de souffle
Mar 11, 2018
For starters - I certainly am quite clueless here as to why this film earned the title of "Breathless" for itself. The events that took place in its story were certainly far from being an exhilarating (breathless??) movie-experience. If this b&w, 1960 film is actually considered to be the one that initiated the whole French New Wave movement in cinema - It's certainly got me wondering what French cinema was like prior to this (apparently) revolutionary transformation in film-making. All-in-all - Even though I wouldn't say that "Breathless" was great movie-making - It definitely turned out to be considerably better than I had expected it to be. And - Last, but not least - I sure do wish that this film's protagonist, Michel Pioccard, hadn't been portrayed as being such a lousy, despicable, and untrustworthy bastard that he was. For me - This guy's rotten-to-the-core character really marred the story, big-time.