Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard · 1960 CE · Film · French · Contemporary

Michel steals a car on the road to Paris and shoots the policeman who follows him. In the city he chases a debt he is owed and turns up at the door of Patricia, an American selling the Herald Tribune on the Champs-Élysées. Cool as a borrowed mask.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut · 1959 CE · Film
• ↓ Cléo from 5 to 7
  Agnès Varda · 1962 CE · Film — influenced by this
• ↓ Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino · 1994 CE · Film — influenced by this
• ↓ Bonnie and Clyde
  Arthur Penn · 1967 CE · Film — influenced by this

Attributes

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