rating:
(out of
4 stars)France; 1960
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard; produced by Georges de Beauregard; written by Jean-Luc Godard; story by François Truffaut
Starring Jean-Paul Belmonda, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jean-Luc Godard
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
Considered one of the first movies of the French New Wave 'À Bout de
Soufflé' is as important as 'Citizen Kane' was in 1941 for the cinema. It
was a very influential movie and a lot of things would be different from
here on.
How influential and on what points you can find everywhere; what I liked the
most is how the movie still feels very alive. If you watch the movie like
most modern audiences would do, without realizing all the great things, you
are still able to like this movie very much.
The long shots and the jump cuts give the movie a great visual style, the
main character, killer/car thief Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a
character you will remember. His love interest is Patricia Franchini (Jean
Seberg). We see them one day in Paris. He has killed a cop, stolen cars and
money and wants to take her to Rome. How the story develops is intriguing,
sometimes funny, with the ending that is inevitable. A great French cinema
classic.