Michel is a youthful, dangerous criminal who models himself on the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots and kills a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. … 查看更多內容

• Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michel Poiccard/Laszlo Kovacs
• Jean Seberg as Patricia Franchini 查看更多內容

Background and writing
Breathless was based loosely on a newspaper article that François Truffaut read in The News in Brief. The character of Michel Poiccard is based on real-life Michel Portail and his American girlfriend and journalist … 查看更多內容

• 1960 Prix Jean Vigo
• 1960 Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Bear for Best Director 查看更多內容

American philosopher Hubert Dreyfus saw the film as exemplifying Friedrich Nietzsche's conception of ("active" versus "passive") nihilism. On this reading, Michel and Patricia are attracted to each other because both live life as essentially meaningless. As … 查看更多內容

In his 2008 biography of Godard, Richard Brody wrote: "The seminal importance of the film was recognized immediately. In January 1960 – prior to the film's release – Godard won the Jean Vigo Prize, awarded 'to encourage an auteur of the future' ... Breathless … 查看更多內容

Godard said the success of Breathless was a mistake. He added "there used to be just one way. There was one way you could do things. … 查看更多內容