À BOUT DE SOUFFLE (1960)
Jean-Luc Godard
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Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger
Country: France
Year: 1960
Running time: 89 minutes
Territory: Netherlands
Format: 4K DCP
Language options: English, Dutch
There was before À Bout de Souffle, and there was after À Bout de Souffle. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, À Bout de Souffle helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.