The Last Romantic Couple This year's Oscar-winning film director
Bernardo Bertolucci introduces Godard's revolutionary first film and a classic B-movie, typical of the genre that inspired it.
A bout de souffle
(Breathless) starring
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.
Speeding from
Marseilles to Paris in a stolen car, Michel Poiccard is involved in a fracas with the police. Despite the danger, he lingers in Paris, held by his reckless attraction to an American girl.
Jean-Luc Godard 's stylish first feature, a tribute to
American gangster movies, was recently re-released to great acclaim. A bout de souffle inspired Breathless, Jim McBride 's 1983 remake, which is to be shown in American Wave 2 tomorrow.
Sceenplay by JEAN-LUC GODARD from an original scenario by FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT Produced by GEORGES DE BEAUREGARD Directed by JEAN-LUC GODARD
(A French film with English subtitles. Black and white. First showing on British television)
('American Wave 2: Jim McBride 's Breathless' tomorrow at 10. 10pm)