Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

“New York Herald Tribune!” Plot Summary: After killing a cop with a jump cut, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s Bogart-imitating anti-hero hangs out with his American lover (Jean Seberg). Review: Breathless is invariably the first film that leaps to mind whenever the subject of the French New Wave is broached, no doubt because it epitomizes the philosophy, aesthetic, […]