Breathless (1983)
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When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate - but when will it end?
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- Richard Gere
- Valérie Kaprisky
- Art Metrano
- John P. Ryan
- William Tepper
- Robert Dunn
- Garry Goodrow
- Lisa Jane Persky
- James Hong
- Waldemar Kalinowski
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- Apr 20, 2020
Godard’s is one of the most innovative films, but this is one of the horniest films, and is therefore more integral to the history of cinema.
baradetskiJul 3, 2022Cinema repeats itself; first as tragedy, then as farce. “Breathless,” directed by Jim McBride, is a farce. But by its end, it earns its tragedy. A remake of Godard’s New Wave defining original film, McBride re-envisions “Breathless” as a pop culture-saturated postmodern…
theriverjordanFeb 28, 202165 Richard Gere is off-the-rails in this American reinterpretation of Jean-Luc Godard's classic film. The DNA of Tarantino's jukebox comic book ethos of the 1990s is definitely found here, as are the painful remnants of the 1970s. Uneven in spots, but it has romance and…
SilentDawn - Aug 16, 2021
this is The Thing (1982) of 80s French New Wave remakes and/or movies co-starring Richard Gere's penis absurd that this is somehow still not hailed as a masterpiece
Justin LaLibertyOct 19, 2019The fact that I love the Richard Gere Breathless remake is one of the biggest plot twists of my life. I never saw this coming. Jim McBride took the basic premise and ran wild to create his own thing that feels as influential on the next decade's auteur sensibility as…
John FrankensteinerJul 26, 2022oh so when Tarantino said he was influenced by Godard, he just meant this. it works because the only man more swagged out than Jean-Paul Belmondo is Dr. T from Dr. T and The Women
eddie - Jan 6, 2020
Replaces the insufferably toxic macho posturing of the (sorry, inferior!) original with something so much endearingly dorkier and laughably pathetic -- and manages to somehow eroticize Richard Gere more than Looking for Mr. Goodbar and American Gigolo combined at the same…
LizNov 7, 2025“grief or nothing, what would you choose?” “nothing. like I told you, baby. all or nothing with me.”I see richard gere in the cast list, I watch the movie. I’m a simple girl.
mackenzie 🥀Jul 25, 2022if I looked like Richard Gere this is exactly how I would behave
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the only reason half the scenes weren’t cringe or creepy were because of the charm that richard gere always adds to movies. you cast the wrong guy and you have to shut it off after 20 minutes. didn’t do the guy a favor by sporadically showing his small meat?
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Kaprisky, as the young French student, is an unknown in a role too large and complex for her, and there are times when she seems lost in a scene, looking to Gere for guidance. The result is a stylistic exercise without any genuine human concerns we can identify with - and yet, an exercise that does have a command of its style, is good-looking, fun to watch, and develops a certain morbid humor.
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Much like Body Heat, which valorized noirish archetypes instead of examining their original social contexts, Breathless simply has a hard-on for Hollywood lore, as convertibles, rockabilly, and monochromatic lighting are utilized to enshrine dominant legacies rather than invert or, at least, probe them.
Clayton Dillard
Slant Magazine
Breathless has a lot of mindless drive, but it's also funny. It's full of knowing quotes from other movies and from literature - William Faulkner in addition to Marvel Comics. It's less a film maker's journey of discovery than the film maker's testimony to his awareness of ''cinema,'' and sometimes it's just too much.
Vincent Canby
The New York Times
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