A Bout de Souffle (DVD)

It?s not easy being the only French film fanatic in your family and immediate social circle. The following is something I have heard many, many times, sometimes in jest, but far too often in deadly earnest. ?You know that Jean-Luc Godard you like? I heard something about one of his films the other night. The food one, I think. It was called ?About a Soufflé?. We could speculate for hours about what kind of film About a Soufflé might be. A Jamie Oliver bio-pic, perhaps. Or a Nick Hornby pastiche in which Colin Firth or Hugh Grant nurture an emotionally vulnerable dessert while coming to terms with their own immaturity. A Bout de Souffle, ...

Breathless (official title A Bout de Souffle) is a fantastic film. Althoug it can be said that those film fans who hate foreign films may find it dificult to swallow, Breathless is, and will always remain, a landmark movie. There are other opinions here on this film that do it justice, films that talk of the brilliance of Godard's work, and therefore I have come to the conclusion that I will not write a similar opinion. Instead, I will write an opinion on French Poetic Realism, citing other movies from around the same time and also before it. I hop that this is useful to anyone who reads it, and I look forward to your comments. French poetic realism was the ...

This is an amazing film. It is just so laidback and cool. Jean Paul Belmondo oozes charisma as a murderer on the run from the police. Godard knows how to film a city, Paris looks beautiful and the street cafes look so sophisticated. The storyline is simple, but that doesn't matter as it is the charcters that we are interested in more. This is stylish and is the kind of movie that makes you want to make movies. Go and see it at the cinema if you can as it is really impressive on a big screen. A classic piece of movie making. ...