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    Breathless
    Jean-Luc Godard, Director

    Dudley Andrew (Edited by)

    9780813512532

    Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1988

    248 pages
    20.3 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.34 kg

    Breathless, a low-budget film, came to be regarded as one of the major accomplishments of the French New Wave cinema of the early sixties. It had a tremendous influence on French filmmakers and on world cinema in general. Beyond its significance in film history, it was also a film of considerable cultural impact. In Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard captured the spirit of a disillusioned generation and fashioned a style, which drew on the past, to parade that disillusionment.
            In his introduction, Dudley Andrew brilliantly explains what Godard set out to accomplish in Breathless. He illuminates the intertextual and cultural references of the film and the tensions within it between tradition and innovation. This volume also features, for the first time in English, the complete and accurate continuity script of Breathless, together with Francois Truffaut's surprisingly detailed original treatment. Also included are an in-depth selection of reviews and criticism in French and English; a brief biographical sketch of the director's life that covers the development of his career, as well as a filmography and selected bibliography. 

    Introduction 

    Breathless: Old as New / 3
    Dudley Andrew 

    Jean-Luc Godard: A Biographical 
    Sketch / 21

    Breathless

    Credits and Cast / 31

    The Continuity Script / 33 

    Notes on the Continuity Script / 147

    The Original Treatment, Francois
    Truffaut / 153

    Interviews, Reviews, and Commentaries

    Interview with Godard 

        Yvonne Baby, Le Monde, March 18, 1960 / 165

        Jean-Luc Godard, "
    I'm Not Out of Breath,"
    Art, March 1960 / 167

        Films and Filming, September 1961 / 169

        Cahier du Cinema, December 1962 / 171

    Statements 

        Geoges de Beauregard, Producer, 1963 / 175

        Raoul Coutard, Director of Photography, 1963 / 175

        Francois Truffaut, 1963 / 177

    Reviews 

        Le Monde, Jean de Baroncelli / 181

        Arts, Pierre Marcabru / 183 

        Le Figaro Litteraire, Claude Mauriac / 184

        Le Figaro, Louis Chauvet / 186

        Variety, Gene Moskowitz / 188

        Sight and Sound, Louis Marcorelles / 189

        The New York Times, Bosley Crowther / 191 

        The New York Republic, Stanley Kauffmann / 193

        Times / 195

        Film Quarterly, Arlene Croce / 197

        Esquire, Dwight MacDonald / 200

        The Times (London) / 203

        Films and Filming, Gordon Gow / 204

    Commentaries 

        Jean-Luc Gordard, Luc Moullet / 209

        On Breathless, Jean Carta / 215

        A Bout de Souffle, Charles Barr / 220

        The Graphic in Filmic Writing, Marie-Claire Ropars / 224

    Filmography and Bibliography 

        Gordard Filmography, 1954-1985 / 235

        Selected Bibliography / 239


















     
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