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Breathless rewrote the rules of cinema -- and more than 50 years after its arrival, Jean-Luc Godard's paradigm-shifting classic remains every bit as vital.
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A hip, jokey thriller in which the sketchy plot serves as an excuse for stylistic flourishes and philosophical asides. October 5, 2018 | Full Review…
A hip, jokey thriller in which the sketchy plot serves as an excuse for stylistic flourishes and philosophical asides.
Jake Wilson
With the appearance of Breathless, we have a film that is new, aesthetically and morally. December 3, 2015 | Full Review…
With the appearance of Breathless, we have a film that is new, aesthetically and morally.
Stanley Kauffmann
Breathless jumps to its own rhythm and pokes holes in its idols even as it worships them. August 20, 2010 | Rating: 5/5
Breathless jumps to its own rhythm and pokes holes in its idols even as it worships them.
Chris Vognar
On its fiftieth birthday Breathless remains fresh and exciting, although its revolutionary approach has long since been absorbed into the mainstream, and the years do show on it a bit. August 4, 2010 | Full Review…
On its fiftieth birthday Breathless remains fresh and exciting, although its revolutionary approach has long since been absorbed into the mainstream, and the years do show on it a bit.
Jonathan F. Richards
Even 50 years later, it's easy feel how vivid a game-changer Breathless must have been when it arrived. July 16, 2010
Even 50 years later, it's easy feel how vivid a game-changer Breathless must have been when it arrived.
Lisa Kennedy
This movie liberated the cinema -- the stories you could tell and the ways you could tell them -- as clearly and cleanly as Picasso freed painting and the Sex Pistols rebooted rock. July 15, 2010 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
This movie liberated the cinema -- the stories you could tell and the ways you could tell them -- as clearly and cleanly as Picasso freed painting and the Sex Pistols rebooted rock.
Ty Burr
Breathless must have seemed amazing in 1960, a movie obsessed with youth and motion. The problem with youth is it doesn't last. January 13, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Breathless must have seemed amazing in 1960, a movie obsessed with youth and motion. The problem with youth is it doesn't last.
Christopher Lloyd
Exhilarating... Godard uses his camera with the freedom of the gifted amateur who is innocent of all the conventions that the professionals have developed to take the edge off visual reality. July 12, 2019 | Full Review…
Exhilarating... Godard uses his camera with the freedom of the gifted amateur who is innocent of all the conventions that the professionals have developed to take the edge off visual reality.
Dwight MacDonald
Godard is, in a sense, flaunting how he can make a film so vibrant, out of raw materials so flighty, so airy (the 'Breathless' of the title). December 9, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Godard is, in a sense, flaunting how he can make a film so vibrant, out of raw materials so flighty, so airy (the 'Breathless' of the title).
PJ Nabarro
Indisputably on the shortlist of Movies You Need To See if you're going to have a proper conception of cinema history and the potential of cinematic form. January 2, 2016 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
Indisputably on the shortlist of Movies You Need To See if you're going to have a proper conception of cinema history and the potential of cinematic form.
Tim Brayton
[VIDEO ESSAY] Goddard arrived at a kinesthetic technique of jagged cutting during the editing process as a way to speed up the action - to prune out the boring stuff. November 28, 2014 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
[VIDEO ESSAY] Goddard arrived at a kinesthetic technique of jagged cutting during the editing process as a way to speed up the action - to prune out the boring stuff.
Cole Smithey
A unique hybrid, both the realization of years of critical writings by Godard and ... also a film made by an unabashed cinephile. March 6, 2014 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
A unique hybrid, both the realization of years of critical writings by Godard and ... also a film made by an unabashed cinephile.
Christopher Long
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