A look into the emerging youth culture of the Sixties in this French New Wave classic
Breathless released in 1960 by Jean Luc Godard was a standard bearer of the French New Wave.<br /><br />It features Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michel a young, petty criminal in Marseille who steals a car. He hopes his thievery will lead him to a new life. Everything goes wrong however as he kills a cop and escapes to Paris. There he rejoins Patricia (Jean Seberg), an American student who works for the New York Herald Tribune, who is one of his lovers. Thus starts the adventure of Breathless.<br /><br />Released at the start of the Sixties it set a lot of precedents for the emerging youth culture and its aesthetics. Michel for example attempts to imitate the cool of the U.S., and looks up to Humphrey Bogart. He’s always got a cigarette loosely hanging from his lip. He’s so confident in himself he believes that he can talk Patricia into sleeping with him. Patricia on the other hand is a free spirit who feels no obligation to see just one man at a time. In another scene, Patricia goes to a press conference for a French author who wrote a book on love and the sexes. He gets to spout a bunch of statements about differences between men and women, and the sexual revolution that was then going on. Later, the two are on the run from the police and they remain totally cool. Their youth is like a defense from the troubles swirling around them. Despite that exuberance the ending is very fatalistic, but perhaps romantic at the same time.<br /><br />Overall, Michel and Patricia are care free. They’re not held back by convention. They are not afraid of the authorities or the troubles of the world. They are all about the moment. For those reasons, Breathless gives a real glimpse into the time period it was produced and remains a great film to watch and take in.<br />C
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