Breathless (Criterion Collection)[Blu-ray] Special Edition
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard (Band of Outsiders) 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 (Pierrot le fou) and Jean Seberg (Bonjour tristesse), Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director of photography Raoul Coutard, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville
- Contemporary interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker
- Two video essays, one on Seberg and one on Breathless as film criticism
- Chambre 12, Hôtel de suède, an eighty-minute 1993 documentary about the making of Breathless
- Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short by Godard starring Belmondo
- Trailer
- Language: French
- Subtitles: English
- Run Time: 90 minutes
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Dudley Andrew, writings by Godard, François Truffaut s original treatment, and Godard s scenario
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Van Doude, Liliane Dreyfus, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Balducci
