Jean-Paul Belmondo
Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
Jean Seberg
Patricia Franchini
Henri-Jacques Huet
Antonio Berrutti
Roger Hanin
Carl Zubart
Van Doude
American Journalist, Patricia's Friend
Claude Mansard
Claudius Mansard
Liliane Dreyfus
Liliane / Minouche
François Moreuil
Journalist at Orly
Liliane Robin
MinoucheJean Domarchi
A Drunk (uncredited)
Jean Douchet
A Journalist (uncredited)
Raymond Huntley
A Journalist (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)
Released
fr
- #hotel room
- #dying and death
- #newspaper
- #journalist
- #friendship
- #paris, france
- #fight
- #loss of loved one
- #gun
- #car thief
- #marseille, france
- #journalism
- #smoking
- #on the run
- #black and white
- #financial transactions
- #extramarital affair
- #french noir
- #runaway couple
- #fugitive lovers
- #defiant
Reviews
Jean-Paul Belmondo spends much of this film in just his boxers after his "Poiccard/Kovacs" character pinches a car, kills the pursuing police officer and the ends up taking refuge with his new journalism student friend "Patricia" (Jean Seberg). She's not quite aware of the extent of the trouble her new beau is in when he sets about trying to convince her that he has some cash coming and that they
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 gi