Showing posts with label Jean-Paul Belmondo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean-Paul Belmondo. Show all posts

7/02/2019

Breathless / À bout de souffle (1960)

This past weekend I attended an outdoor screening of this film at a park downtown (seeing it for the first time); I enjoyed it, especially the build-up of suspense of Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) being tracked down by the police while pursuing Jean Seberg. My friend commented how the misogyny in the film stood out to him, and I could see how this can be problematic for contemporary audiences. While watching, I noticed the one quick shot toward the end where Michel is wearing sunglasses with one lens just like Clyde did at the end of Bonnie and Clyde shortly before he's killed (the 2017 film Baby Driver also includes a similar bit).