‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute
He was the explosively talented film-maker who changed cinema for all time. But what did other directing giants make of this movie legend – and did they find his latter films unwatchable?
Jean-Luc Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it
Peter Bradshaw
Godard was the inspired maverick of the French New Wave, the Lennon to Truffaut’s McCartney, and kept his radical imagination to the very end
Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French New Wave, dies at 91
The radical director of Breathless and Alphaville, and who was a key figure in the French Nouvelle Vague, has died
September 2021
Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of Breathless, dies aged 88
The actor exploded on to the screen in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 New Wave classic, which made him one of France’s biggest box-office stars
April 2020
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … Breathless
The pretty girl, the bad boy, the Champs-Élysées ... nope, never seen Jean-Luc Godard’s debut masterpiece. But I know what it’s about – don’t I?
November 2016
Raoul Coutard obituary
French cinematographer Raoul Coutard – a life in pictures
October 2010
The 25 best romantic films of all time
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle): No 4 best romantic film of all time
Jean-Luc Godard, 1960
June 2010
Breathless review – Jean-Luc Godard's inspired cine-jazz solo
Clip from the restored version of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (À Bout de Souffle)
April 2008
Nick Fraser's films that made waves
Citizen Kane | Breathless (A bout de souffle) | Dr Strangelove | The Battle of Algiers | The Sorrow and the Pity | The Deer Hunter | E.T. | My Beautiful Laundrette | Schindler's List | Brokeback Mountain
November 2006
Philip French's DVD club
A bout de souffle (Breathless)
Philip French: As much a landmark in the history of cinema as Griffith's Intolerance, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and Welles's Citizen Kane.
July 2000
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)
Peter Bradshaw: A movie to be compared with Songs for Swinging Lovers, and yet with intoxicating intellectual dash and sophistication. A treat
March 2000
Derek Malcolm's century of film
Jean-Luc Godard: A Bout de Souffle
Godard's extraordinary A Bout de Souffle (Breathless)... reached us like a clap of thunder in 1960, immediately establishing an international reputation for itself and introducing us to a new kind of paradoxical hero who has been copied, usually badly, ever since
