Two things are important in life: for men, women; for women, money.
No 125 - À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) Director - Jean- Luc Godard I was first introduced to the work of Godard through the film The Dreamers - which included footage of his films amongst the shots of sexual confusion and Eva Green's vagina (that sounds dismissive: it is a brilliant film. I highly recommend it). Subsequently, my mother bought this film as it was on offer - she found it intolerably dull and couldn't believe that I didn't. So she gave it to me. This film isn't dull... it is cool. Even though nothing really happens for the majority of the film (besides the important events which bookend it). We follow Michel (played by the delightfully world weary Jean-Paul Belmondo - haggard, like a French Bogart ); a petty thief who just wants to go to Paris and see the woman he loves. However, through the course of a series of events (brilliantly shown as three quick shots with no transition and no attempt at interconnecting them) he ends up shooting a policeman. ...