Breathless (60th Anniversary Restoration)

(France / 1960 / Directed by Jean-Luc Godard)

Adapted from an original treatment by Francois Truffaut, Godard’s film stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as small-time crook Michel, who steals a car and murders a policeman. While on the run, he reconnects with Patricia (Jean Seberg), a journalism student living in Paris, and tries to convince her to go on the lam with him. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities, and anything-goes crime narrative, it’s hard to overstate the impact of Breathless. As Scorsese recently wrote, “There are precious few titles in the history of cinema that can truly be called ‘revolutionary,’ and Godard’s Breathless is one of those few – it gave us a new way of making movies and a new way of thinking about them, a new rhythm of life, a new way of looking at ourselves. And, like all great pictures, it seems as fresh and startling today as it did 60 years ago.” Join us for a chance to see this wonderful piece of cinema history on the big screen.

1 hr 30 mins.
In French with subtitles.