Watched this for the Kermode Uncut Film Club, and it was unexpectedly awesome. Didn't anticipate much, but damn, is this a cool film.

Watched as part of the Kermode Uncut Film Club.

What a great over-the-top performance from Richard Gere. I've never been much of a fan of his, but that's probably because I've never seen him play a role quite like this.

I really wasn't expecting a lot from this film, but was intrigued by Kermode's introduction. I'm so glad I watched it as it's an unsung gem of a film. Great direction, great performances and a great soundtrack.

I think it's time I reassessed Richard Gere.

καλύτερο από το original του Godard, in every single way. εντάξει, καλό και το À bout de souffle, αλλά έχει σκηνή με shower sex και τον Richard Gere να τραγουδάει Elvis; όχι. έχει τον Richard Gere να περιφέρεται φορώντας τα πιο όμορφα παντελόνια σε ταινία, ever; όχι. έχει τον Richard Gere; όχι. τέλος.

Richard Gere swaggers his way through Jim McBride's remake of 'A Bout de Souffle.' Completely over the top, with a great rock'n roll soundtrack from the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Sam Cooke. This film is fun and a triumph of style over substance.

Watched this as part of Kermode's Film Club and quite enjoyed it. It's far from perfect but it's certainly fun and Valérie Kaprisky is just crazily beautiful.

Scratching away at its surface there's also some really interesting things to learn about remaking a film. Here À bout de souffle isn't just translated by language - it's translated by culture. Dig a little deeper and you'll find all sorts of interesting questions about high and low culture as the Champs-Élysées turns into LA and highbrow literature becomes Silver Surfer comic books. Despite being a film that's so heavily self-aware, it rarely feels that forced (perhaps unlike À bout de souffle). Instead McBride's world is just a fun, and at a times romantic, place to hang out.

It's certainly no masterpiece but Breathless is an enjoyable little film and worthy of being a well-respected cult-classic.

The feverish, absurdly stylized first half hour or so is really hot shit, but as it starts coming down to earth, its pleasures become more intermittent and less striking. There are a lot of easy answers for why this amusing but minor curio doesn't quite gel, and the easiest is Valerie Kaprisky, who's a knockout in a hot pink swimsuit, in a hot pink miniskirt, and in her hot pink birthday suit, but who has none of the intense, off-kilter charisma Jean Seberg brought to the original, and so for all her hot pinkness she doesn't quite register as a suitably deranged subject for 'amour fou.' Gere, on the other hand, does some career best work here, and whatever goofy energy the movie retains right up until the end is largely due to his unflagging exuberance.

Fantastic 'remake' of the Godard film but because of it's love of comic books and rockabilly is so much better. Richard Gere gives a mesmerising performance as the free-spirited outlaw. It's criminal that the soundtrack hasn't had a release. Highly recommended.

"coolness"

"I wanna live in this movie"

"so sexy"

"the fucking ending!"

choose your favorite

This was my first time seeing Breathless in its entirety. It's okay. In an inversion of the Godard original, the guy is American and the girl is French; Richard Gere embraces the sociopathic qualities of his anachronistic hero, maybe to the picture's detriment, and Valerie Kaprisky is agonizingly pretty but obviously struggling--at least two-thirds of her performance is post-synched. A scene where Gere argues with a dumb kid at a newstand about the virtues of his favourite superhero, Silver Surfer, reminds that Tarantino loves this remake, but he would've written that exchange so much better. If you want to watch a mid-'80s road movie with an L.M. Kit Carson screenplay, stick with Paris, Texas.

καλύτερο από το original του Godard, in every single way. εντάξει, καλό και το À bout de souffle, αλλά έχει σκηνή με shower sex και τον Richard Gere να τραγουδάει Elvis; όχι. έχει τον Richard Gere να περιφέρεται φορώντας τα πιο όμορφα παντελόνια σε ταινία, ever; όχι. έχει τον Richard Gere; όχι. τέλος.

Why

I remember sitting in the front row to this movie. Saw this with my younger brother and cousin - yeah, talk about awkward! I had an eyeful plus a kink in my neck. Not good...lol!

[Secret Cinema] I don’t know which is more striking, how good Richard Gere is or how bad Valerie Kaprisky is. I guess Gere. He makes the movie interesting despite everything working against him. Kaprisky though sucks the life out of everything other than Gere. I don’t know why they couldn’t get a better actress. Maybe it was the demands for gratuitous nudity. For me that is the biggest difference between the 1960 version and the 1983 version - the complete shift in which character i cared about. In the 1960 one, I loved the girl; in the 1983 one I wanted to follow Gere the whole time. This version is a bit too long too. The chase with the cops and movie theater scenes are not necessary.