À bout de souffle (1960)




Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg - À bout de souffle

Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg - À bout de souffle

Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg - À bout de souffle




Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.


Books with substantial mentioning of À bout de souffle

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Sandra Kühle
Remakes, Amerikanische Versionen europäischer Filme
Remscheid, 2006

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Lloyd Hughes
The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies
London, 2005

Alfred Holighaus (ed.)
Der Filmkanon, 35 Filme, die Sie kennen müssen
Bonn; Berlin, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Survey of Cinema, Foreign Language Films. Volume 1 A-CED
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1985

Articles on À bout de souffle

Dudley Andrew, Breathless: Old as New, in: Dudley Andrew (ed.), Breathless, New Brunswick and London, 1987

Jean Carta, On Breathless, in: Dudley Andrew (ed.), Breathless, New Brunswick and London, 1987

Charles Barr, A Bout de Souffle, in: Dudley Andrew (ed.), Breathless, New Brunswick and London, 1987

Marie-Claire Ropars, The Graphic in Filmic Writing, in: Dudley Andrew (ed.), Breathless, New Brunswick and London, 1987

Geoffrey O'Brien, An ideal for living, Breathless will always be more than a movie, in: Filmcomment, nr. 3 (May/June), 2010 pp. 28-33

Breath of fresh air, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 7 (July), 2010 pp. 7

Adam Batty, Breathless, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 1 (January), 2016 pp. 112

Articles with substantial mentioning of À bout de souffle

Rob Fraser, Your 10 Best '60s Movies, in: Empire, nr. 199 (January), 2006 pp. 150-151



Year: 1960
Country: France
Language: French
English
 
IMDb: 0053472