DVD
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Audiovisual Collection
Breathless = À bout de souffle
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN, WSQ)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Liliane David, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2014]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders the policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with an American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on a treatment by François Truffaut.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.
Special features: Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director of photography Raoul Coutard ; archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville ; interviews from 2007 with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker ; two video essays: filmmaker Mark Rappaport's Jean Seberg and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's "Breathless" as Criticism ; Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, an eighty-minute French documentary about the making of Breathless, with members of the cast and crew ; Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short film by Godard featuring Belmondo ; French theatrical trailer.