Breathless
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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.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo
Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
Jean Seberg
Patricia Franchini
Daniel Boulanger
Police Inspector Vital
Henri-Jacques Huet
Antonio Berrutti
Roger Hanin
Carl Zubart
Van Doude
American Journalist, Patricia's Friend
Claude Mansard
Claudius Mansard
Liliane Dreyfus
Liliane / Minouche
Michel Fabre
Police Inspector #2
Jean-Pierre Melville
Parvulesco the Writer
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CRCulver
September 2, 2018
A key film of the late Fifties/early Sixties French New Wave, <i>À bout de souffle</i> (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 to collect so…
CinemaSerf
@Geronimo1967March 14, 2024
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 extent of the trouble her …
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