Jean-Paul Belmondo Articles

Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless BREATHLESS Review Part I Raoul Coutard's black-and-white cinematography and composition is also rather forgettable, looking haphazard, poorly framed, and poorly lit. Again, deliberation and the excuse of "realism" does not make up for the murky end result. Also, unlike true film noir, Coutard makes no great use of the power of black-and-white imagery, be it the grays, or the [...]

À BOUT DE SOUFFLE / BREATHLESS (1960) Direction: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard; from a story by François Truffaut Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Breathless By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica The fact that an artist writes boringly to convey boredom, or childishly to convey puerility, has no effect on the resultant work being neither boring nor puerile. [...]

Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces (top); Ivor Novello, Mabel Poulton, The Constant Nymph (middle); Jean Seberg, Breathless (bottom) Bob Rafelson's biting social critique Five Easy Pieces (1970), starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black; Adrian Brunel's silent romantic drama The Constant Nymph (1928), a tale of "forbidden love" starring stage and movie idol Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton; and Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave classic Breathless (1959), [...]

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, whose Film Socialisme left some reviewers scratching their heads at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, A bout de souffle / Breathless grossed $32.7k at four theaters in the United States, according to Box Office Mojo. The French New Wave classic that has influenced filmmakers around the [...]