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À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) »

jclarke | Thursday September 10, 2015

Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Directors, Jean-Luc Godard, World Cinema, Un Bout de Souffle, Genres & Case Studies, French New Wave

À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1960) Jean-Luc Godard, the director of À Bout de Souffle, always sought to encourage the audience to rethink what film could be in terms of both subject matter and the treatment of that subject matter. Godard once commented that ‘To me style is just the outside of content and content the inside of style; like the outside and inside of the human body both go together, they cannot be separated.’ [5]. It’s surely one of the most useful…
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