The film breathless also knows as À bout de souffle(French), is a French New Wave crime drama film. The writer and also the director is Jean-Luc Godard. This film was produced in 1960 in France and produced by Georges De Beauregard. The running time of the film is 87 minutes and the language of this film was used French and English. This film also as the first French New Wave film. It brought attention from other countries because of its new styles of French filmmaking.
The French New Wave was started in 1959 by Jean-Luc Godard, which is the file name Breathless. This film movement is ended in 1969 with the film named Weekend, which also directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film in French was mainly literary adaptations, which mean that the filmmaker will find out the story from the novel and transfer it to a film. These films were usually filmed within the studio system or on big-budget spectacles and international co-productions. In the 1950s, the film movement, which is the documentary movement that happened in France. There are lots of filmmakers were making the documentary of Nazi death camps, cinema verite and sane man in the lunatic asylum.
The French New Wave film has used handheld shot to shot the hold movie and also used long take technique. The editing style is lots of the jump cuts that show the change of the place or also the time of the story. This film movement rejected montage aesthetics and favouring on mise-en-scene. The ideology of this selection is because they think the film should not just be intellectual or rational experiences, it might also include the emotional and also psychological experiences. The next is about personal authorship, the ideology of it is the "Policy of Authors" or the Auteur Theory. It states that the film should be an agency of personal artistic expression, bearing the filmmaker's signature, which the personality, controlling the obsession and cardinal themes. By the way, the dialogues of the character might be improvised, it can look more natural than only follow the plot. In 1969, the directors have developed their own styles and made mainstream films based on this film movement. It is also the end of the "wave".
Michel who is the criminal, he stole a car in Marseille and shoots and kills a policeman that who follow him. When he was on the run from police, he fell in love with the American, who named Patricia, a student also an aspiring journalist who sells the New York Herald Tribune. After that, she knows that Michel is a criminal from the police. At last, she decides to betray Michel, and tell him what she was done. The police shoot Michel in the street and he died out of breath.
In this film, there are some of the dialogues are improvised from the actor, they make the talk between each other become more natural. For example, the beginning of the scene, which is the first scene that Michel driving on the car, few of the dialogue is improvised himself. The more special things in this movie are about the camera movement, which is the handheld camera. We can notice that sometimes the camera was not stable like the first scene in the car, the camera was a bit shaking. Also when the police shoot Michel at the last scene, the camera was shaking little to show that the effect of they have running, it makes the movement become more realistic. About the sound, this film was recorded all of the sounds of the scene. For example, when Michel was talking to Patricia, we can notice that there is some sound come from the windows, like the sound caused by the car. The editing style is the jump cut, the audiences can notice that there are lots of the jump cut used in this film. For the example of Michel shoot the police, he picks out his gun, the camera focus on the gun and cut to the police get shooting with the gun shooting sound effect. It can let the audience know that the police was shot by Micheal. However, sometime the audience will get a little bit confusing when the jump cut was using in a bad way. The long shot also applied to this film, which is Michel talking with Patricia in her apartment. It takes a very long time to show them talking with each other.
In conclusion, the French New Wave is a film movement that appears in the early 1950s until the 1960s. It uses lots of jump cuts as the editing style and the long shot. Sometimes the dialogue of the characters might be improvised, it can look more natural. Also, they were favouring on mise-en-scene. The filmmakers develop their own new style film after the 1960s. Jean-Luc Godard is the only people that continue with this film movement.
Michel who is the criminal, he stole a car in Marseille and shoots and kills a policeman that who follow him. When he was on the run from police, he fell in love with the American, who named Patricia, a student also an aspiring journalist who sells the New York Herald Tribune. After that, she knows that Michel is a criminal from the police. At last, she decides to betray Michel, and tell him what she was done. The police shoot Michel in the street and he died out of breath.
In this film, there are some of the dialogues are improvised from the actor, they make the talk between each other become more natural. For example, the beginning of the scene, which is the first scene that Michel driving on the car, few of the dialogue is improvised himself. The more special things in this movie are about the camera movement, which is the handheld camera. We can notice that sometimes the camera was not stable like the first scene in the car, the camera was a bit shaking. Also when the police shoot Michel at the last scene, the camera was shaking little to show that the effect of they have running, it makes the movement become more realistic. About the sound, this film was recorded all of the sounds of the scene. For example, when Michel was talking to Patricia, we can notice that there is some sound come from the windows, like the sound caused by the car. The editing style is the jump cut, the audiences can notice that there are lots of the jump cut used in this film. For the example of Michel shoot the police, he picks out his gun, the camera focus on the gun and cut to the police get shooting with the gun shooting sound effect. It can let the audience know that the police was shot by Micheal. However, sometime the audience will get a little bit confusing when the jump cut was using in a bad way. The long shot also applied to this film, which is Michel talking with Patricia in her apartment. It takes a very long time to show them talking with each other.
In conclusion, the French New Wave is a film movement that appears in the early 1950s until the 1960s. It uses lots of jump cuts as the editing style and the long shot. Sometimes the dialogue of the characters might be improvised, it can look more natural. Also, they were favouring on mise-en-scene. The filmmakers develop their own new style film after the 1960s. Jean-Luc Godard is the only people that continue with this film movement.
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