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Breathless

1960 French film by Jean-Luc Godard
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Summary

Breathless is a film[1]. Breathless ranks in the top 2% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,396 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Silver Bear for Best Director[3], French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards[4], Prix Jean Vigo[5]
  • Director: Jean-Luc Godard[6]
  • Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard[7], François Truffaut[8]
  • Composer: Martial Solal[9]
  • Genre: drama film[10], crime film[11]
  • Cast member: Jean-Paul Belmondo[12], Jean Seberg[13], Daniel Boulanger[14], Jean-Pierre Melville[15], André S. Labarthe[16], Claude Mansard[17], François Moreuil[18], Henri-Jacques Huet[19], Jacques Siclier[20], Jean Domarchi[21], Jean Douchet[22], Jean-Louis Richard[23], José Bénazéraf[24], Liliane David[25]
  • Producer: Georges de Beauregard[26]
  • Director of photography: Raoul Coutard[27]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[28], French[29]
  • Commons category: À bout de souffle[30]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[31]
  • Review score: 8.7/10[32], 96%[33], 96/100[34], 7.6/10[35]
  • Color: black-and-white[36]
  • Country of origin: France[37]
  • Publication date: January 1, 1960[38], July 5, 1960[39], March 16, 1960[40]
  • Distributed by: UGC[41], Netflix[42]
  • Narrative location: Paris[43], Marseille[44], avenue des Champs-Élysées[45], rue Campagne-Première[46]
  • Filming location: Cinéma Mac-Mahon[47], avenue des Champs-Élysées[48], rue Campagne-Première[49], Marseille[50]
  • Main subject: love[51], liberty[52], individual and society[53], human condition[54], free will[55], role[56], outsider[57]
  • Film editor: Cécile Decugis[58]
  • Described by source: The Cine-Tourist[59]
  • Nominated for: Golden Bear[60], British Academy of Film and Television Arts[61]
  • Title: À bout de souffle[62]

Why It Matters

Breathless has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[63] Breathless is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[64]

FAQs

What awards did Breathless receive?

Honors received include Silver Bear for Best Director[3], French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards[4], and Prix Jean Vigo[5].

Related Entities

Claude Chabrol film France François Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Pierre Melville Jean Seberg Netflix Roger Hanin The Cine-Tourist The Dreamers

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [63] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [64] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Production designer → Claude Chabrol
    Set in period → August 1959
    Described by source → The Cine-Tourist
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