Breathless

directed by Jean-Luc Godard

with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg

film series Orientation Week Godard in the '60s

Nobody can claim to know anything about Tarantino or, for that matter, Wong Kar-Wai, without having seen this—remarkably Godard's first feature film. Close to fifty years after its original release, Breathless remains as relevant and irreverent as it has always been. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg—playing a Bogart-like Parisian hood and his American girlfriend—have become cinematic icons paid tribute to in Pulp Fiction and Chungking Express. And don't forget the jump-cuts and cinematic allusions: this is a movie for people who love the movies. "The ultimate night-time film noir noir noir ..." (Time Out) New 16mm print

1959, b&w, 1 hour 30 minutes, France