BREATHLESS / BAND OF OUTSIDERS

April 21st @ 7:30pm

FOR THE LOVE OF GODARD
Double Feature!
BREATHLESS / BAND OF OUTSIDERS
Co-presented by the French Film and TV Office of the French. Consulate in Los Angeles

35 mm!

BREATHLESS (À BOUT DE SOUFFLE)
1960, Rialto Pictures, 90 min, France, Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
Lip-stroking pug Jean-Paul Belmondo is on the run, shooting cops and stealing cars – and cash from the handbag of Herald Tribune-hawking girlfriend Jean Seberg – with the couple engaging in boudoir philosophy, staring contests, sous-blanket tussles and plenty of smoking. The start of Godard’s decade of supreme hipness and seemingly compulsive, often outrageous innovation.

35 mm!

BAND OF OUTSIDERS (BANDE À PART)
1964, Rialto Pictures, 97 min, France, Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard told his backers he was delivering a sequel to BREATHLESS, but instead he created this offbeat meditation on politics, philosophy and the American gangster movie. Combining playful slapstick with sudden bursts of violence, this tale of three bumbling thieves (one of whom is played by Godard’s then-wife and muse, Anna Karina) is one of the director’s most original and entertaining works. Musical score by Michel Legrand. In French with English subtitles.

Both films in French with English subtitles.