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Jean-Paul Belmondo
Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
Jean Seberg
Patricia Franchini
Daniel Boulanger
Police Inspector Vital
Henri-Jacques Huet
Antonio Berrutti
Roger Hanin
Carl Zubart
Van Doude
American Journalist, Patricia's Friend
Claude Mansard
Claudius Mansard
Liliane Dreyfus
Liliane / Minouche
Michel Fabre
Police Inspector #2
Jean-Pierre Melville
Parvulesco the Writer
Jean-Luc Godard
The Snitch
Richard Balducci
Tolmatchoff
André S. Labarthe
Journalist at Orly
François Moreuil
Journalist at Orly
Jacques Lourcelles
Liliane Robin
Minouche
Gérard Brach
Photographer (uncredited)
Philippe de Broca
A Journalist (uncredited)
José Bénazéraf
Man in a White Car (uncredited)
Jean Domarchi
A Drunk (uncredited)
Jean Douchet
A Journalist (uncredited)
Raymond Huntley
A Journalist (uncredited)
Louiguy
(uncredited)
Michel Mourlet
Audience in the Movie Theater (uncredited)
Guido Orlando
(uncredited)
Madame Paul
(uncredited)
Jean-Louis Richard
A Journalist (uncredited)
Jacques Serguine
(uncredited)
Jacques Siclier
(uncredited)
Virginie Ullmann
(uncredited)
Emile Villion
(uncredited)

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A review by CRCulver

Written by CRCulver on Sun Sep 02 2018

A key film of the late Fifties/early Sixties French New Wave, <i>À bout de souffle</i> (Breathless) opens with suave lowlife Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) stealing a car. When he's caught speeding on the way to Paris and pursued by the police, Michel kills the officer. Desperate to collect some money owed and make his escape to Italy, he hides out with Patricia (Jean Seberg), an American girl he had slept with once and who is oblivious to the danger he's in. This is one of the most influential films of all time in its liberal use of jump cuts, in idolizing American noir films and tran...