Breathless (1960)

Celebrate the career of legendary filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard at a big screen presentation of his très cool French New Wave classic starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, in a gorgeous new 4K restoration!

There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. The young filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form and dangerously sexy homage to the American B-movie genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du Cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes narrative involving two lovers on the run from the law, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless (À bout de soufflé) helped launch the French New Wave and Godard’s legendary career as a movie-mad provocateur, ensuring that cinema would never be the same. (Dir. by Jean Luc-Godard, 1960, France, in French with subtitles, 90 mins., Not Rated)