Film Response- A Bout De Souffle (1959)

'A Bout De Souffle' (Breathless) is a 1959 French new wave film directed by Jean- Luc Godard and starred Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Bemondo. A young car thief called Michel kills a policeman, and tries to convince Patricia, an American, to run away to Italy with him.

The film was very revolutionary as it adopted a lot of techniques that had not previously been used, as well as discussion of topics that were deemed inappropriate for the time. One of the techniques that is used is the unusual editing. Where in most Hollywood films, the crew strive to achieve a continuous, flowing feature, this makes use of editing that doesn't necessarily fit together, making the audience feel slightly uncomfortable. Another thing that is new is the use of completely on location filming. There is also a lot of blunt talk of sex, which for the time was new and shocking.

However, although I appreciate the artistic nature of the film, it wasn't really my cup of tea.