Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard, 1960

Video clips:

  1. First shot
  2. Selling New York Herald Tribune
  3. Michel at the travel agency
  4. Michel does "Bogie"
  5. Jump cuts, while driving
  6. The ending
Godard pushes Coutard Godard pushes Coutard
Godard pushes Coutard: in the travel agency (left) and an apartment.
Godard directs Belmondo, on the street
Godard (center, with tie around neck) observes Belmondo on the street, as Coutard shoots with a handheld camera. Not much crowd control...
Source: Raymond Cauchetier, Photos de Cinéma.

Godard directs Orly airport scene.
Godard directs a scene at Orly airport.
Source: Raymond Cauchetier, Photos de Cinéma.

More Photographs by Raymond Cauchetier


Source for Cachetier photographs.
 

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First shot
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First Bogart homage

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Pan begins...

gun barrel
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...police officer shot.

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Out of order: belongs before #22.

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Patricia, selling newspapers on the street: shot begins... (view clip)

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A poster for Ten Seconds to Hell: "Vivre dangereusement jusqu’au bout" or "Live dangerously to the end."

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Selling Cahiers du cinéma on the street.

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Travel agency: shot begins (see #8, view clip)...

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Bogart in The Harder They Fall

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Picasso print

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Renoir print

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Godard as a snitch

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Maurice Sachs' Abracadabra

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"We are dead men on leave," a quotation from Lenin; but probably not connected to Abracadabra. (see Roland-François Lack article)

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(out of order?)

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