A bout de souffle [videorecording] / Pretty Pictures ; [director, Jean-Luc Godard ; producer, Georges de Beauregard ; screenplay, Jean-Luc Godard ; based on an original treatment by François Truffaut].
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FilmPublisher number: CC1716D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 408.Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2007.Edition: Full screenDescription: 2 videodiscs (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (79 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)ISBN: - 1934121924
- 9781934121924
- Title from English subtitles: Breathless
- À bout de souffle (Motion picture)
- PN1997 .A23 2007
- IH 46590
- Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; assistant director, Pierre Rissient ; editor, Cécile Decugis ; music, Martial Solal.
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Credits from booklet.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
Special features: Disc 1. Excerpts from interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard, actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville recorded for French television between 1960-1964; trailer. Disc 2. "Coutard and Rissient" video interview with Coutard & assistant director Pierre Rissient; "Pennebaker on 'Breathless" video interview with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker; "Jean Seberg" video essay by Mark Rappaport; "Breathless as criticism" video essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum; "Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède" making-of documentary with members of the cast & crew (1993, 78 min.); "Charlotte et son Jules" short film by Godard starring Belmondo (1959, 13 min.). Booklet. "Breathless then and now" by scholar Dudley Andrew; "Godard in his own words" selections from statements & interviews by Godard from 1959-1962; "Breathless in progress"; "Truffaut treatment" original film treatment translated by Ellen Sowchek; "Godard scenario" translated by Dory O'Brien for Dudley Andrew's book Breathless.
Disc one. Feature film ; archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg and Jean-Pierre Melville ; French theatrical trailer ; new English subtitles -- disc two. New video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker ; New video essays by Mark Rappaport and Jonathan Rosenbaum ; "Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède," an 80 minute French documentary on the making of "Breathless" ; "Charlotte et son Jules," a 1959 short by Godard, starring Belmondo.
Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; assistant director, Pierre Rissient ; editor, Cécile Decugis ; music, Martial Solal.
Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Van Doude, Liliane David, Michel Fabre, Jean-Pierre Melville, Claude Mansard, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Balducci; with appearances by Philippe de Broca, Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet, Jean Herman, André S. Labarthe.
A small-time criminal kills a police officer, setting in motion a tragic series of events for both himself and his American girlfriend.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen standard (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
In French with optional English subtitles.
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