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Pretty Pictures
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Featuring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless (A bout de soufflé) helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
French PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Video Essay, Documentary, Short Film, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville
- Contemporary interviews with Raoul Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker
- Two video essays, one on Seberg and one on Breathless as film criticism
- Chambre 12, Hôtel de suède, an eighty-minute 1993 documentary about the making of Breathless
- Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short by Godard starring Belmondo
- Trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Dudley Andrew, writings by Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut’s original treatment, and Godard’s scenario
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Release Credits
Artwork: Rodrigo Corral
Producer: Abbey Lustgarten
Producer: Alexandre Mabilon
Restoration Information
Breathless
Restoration by:
The Criterion Collection
Year: 2006
Scanned at: High-Definition Digital
Restored at: High-Definition Digital
Sources:
35mm Fine-grain master positive
Release Notes on Restoration
Breathless
Breathless is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and the right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. Approved by director of photography Raoul Coutard, this high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit Datacine from a 35mm original fine-grain master positive. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, warps, jitter, and flicker were manually removed using the MTI Film’s DRS and Pixel Farm’s PFClean, while Digital Vision’s DVNR was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from a 35mm optical track print. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from a 35mm optical track print. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.