BREATHLESS (1960) Dir. Jean-Luc Godard - CINEMIN review

There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same. In a moment of celebrating talent, at least like this, and that I see when an artist leaves us. That was the case this week when we lost the great French actor Jean Paul Belmondo who reaches the stature of international cinema legend. It is also because of this same love for the cinematographic arts that I take advantage and I make my very modest, but sincere tribute to another legend: the director Jean-Luc Godard, who I confess I do not always understand the complexity of his films but that I do not fail to respect and understand its importance and relevance in an age as troubled as we live in. It is through this cinema of unusual authors and ideals that he led a revolution with the French New Wave, in which he took part with a group of privileged people. Here is his first film in which his technique proves impressive and at the same time surprising, in which his style would often be immaculate but never equaled. That alone, in my opinion, is already his triumph, but this filmmaker was not alone there, he continued to transcend and transgress already established parameters in a solitary quest to show what Cinema itself means. And I took a ride on Godard's wings to get to know and better understand his style. The conclusion is that there is no correct reading of his Cinema and that the vast majority of us have not reached his intellectual level. This is not to say that he is inaccessible, but that he is absolutely brilliant. So here are my thoughts and opinion on this crucial film in the history of the French New Wave, as well as cinema as a whole. Don't forget to check my website where you can also find other reviews: https://danobre3.wixsite.com/cinemin

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