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Breathless
Title:
Breathless
Uniform Title:
À bout de souffle (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9781934121924
Edition:
Full screen.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2007.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.

Special features: Disc 1. Excerpts from interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard, actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville recorded for French television between 1960-1964; trailer. Disc 2. "Coutard and Rissient" video interview with Coutard & assistant director Pierre Rissient; "Pennebaker on 'Breathless" video interview with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker; "Jean Seberg" video essay by Mark Rappaport; "Breathless as criticism" video essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum; "Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède" making-of documentary with members of the cast & crew (1993, 78 min.); "Charlotte et son Jules" short film by Godard starring Belmondo (1959, 13 min.). Booklet. "Breathless then and now" by scholar Dudley Andrew; "Godard in his own words" selections from statements & interviews by Godard from 1959-1962; "Breathless in progress"; "Truffaut treatment" original film treatment translated by Ellen Sowchek; "Godard scenario" translated by Dory O'Brien for Dudley Andrew's book Breathless.
Contents:
Disc one. Feature film ; archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg and Jean-Pierre Melville ; French theatrical trailer ; new English subtitles -- disc two. New video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker ; New video essays by Mark Rappaport and Jonathan Rosenbaum ; "Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède, " an 80 minute French documentary on the making of "Breathless" ; "Charlotte et son Jules, " a 1959 short by Godard, starring Belmondo.
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Summary:
A small-time criminal kills a police officer, setting in motion a tragic series of events for both himself and his American girlfriend.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1, NTSC; FULL SCREEN STANDARD (1.33:1) PRESENTATION; DOLBY DIGITAL MONO.
Language Note:
IN FRENCH WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
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