Tuesday, May 1, 2007

A bout de souffle




With his last breath,


Michel whispers "It's disgusting",


but the policeman tells Patricia that he told her "you're disgusting"



The young Jean-Paul Belmondo, his face battered by boxing, was cast in the lead, modelling his manner on his idol, Humphrey Bogart. He is introduced as a petty street thief in Marseilles. En route to Paris in a stolen car, he kills a cop who tries to stop him. Later he holes up in the Paris apartment of an American girl (Jean Seberg) who ekes out a perilous living selling newspapers.

An informer (Godard himself) spots Belmondo, and the police offer her (Seberg) a deal that ends with her lover shot down on the street in front of her.


No comments: