Classic black-and-white movie month: Breathless (1960)
Fri 11 May 2018, 7.30 pm
TPD
From TPD:
In the second week of Classical black-and-white movie month, a screening of Breathless, directed by Jean-Luc Gordard, will take place at ahe Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD).
Film notes:
BREATHLESS • France • 1960
90′ | Crime • Drama
Breathless (French: À bout de souffle; “out of breath”) is a French New Wave film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in his feature directorial debut about a wandering criminal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his American girlfriend (Jean Seberg). It was Godard’s first feature-length work and represented Belmondo’s breakthrough as an actor.
Breathless was one of the earliest, most influential examples of French New Wave (nouvelle vague) cinema. Together with François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima, Mon Amour, both released a year earlier, it brought international acclaim to this new style of French filmmaking. At the time, the film attracted much attention for its bold visual style, which included unconventional use of jump cuts.
A fully restored version of the film was released in the U.S. for its 50th anniversary in May 2010. When originally released in France, the film attracted over 2 million viewers. [Wikipedia]
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles
• The film screening is for educational purposes and to raise funds for the Young Cinema Fund at TPD.
• Donation (at the door): 20,000 VND/audience.
• Doors open at 7 pm and close when the screening room is full.
• Seats are assigned on the first-come-first-served basis.
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Watch the film’s trailer here:
Translated by Hanoi Grapevine
The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents TPD was established with the purposes of designing and implementing programs to assist and develop movie talents and other activities for the development of Vietnamese cinema.
| The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents 51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi Tel: 024 3936 6559 Email: [email protected] Website: tpdmovie.com.vn |
