Film Leaves Us "Breathless"

The 1960 French film "Breathless" ushered in the French New Wave movement, which radically shifted the country's filmmaking at the time. Gone was a straight-ahead narrative, traditional characters and literary stories with old-fashioned editing. This new style of filmmaking replaced them with offbeat characters, (in "Breathless" played by the inimitable Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo,) a story that meanders and jump cuts that made a film's tempo anything but languorous.

This spring, a restored version of  director Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" was shown for the first time in the U.S. The New York Times called it "immaculate and glowing." A screening of this new enhanced classic, which also has freshly revised subtitles by Lenny Borger, will be shown at Stamford's Avon Theatre on October 6 at 7:30 p.m. After the film, Connecticut Post film critic Joe Meyers leads a discussion about the film and describes how it brought a breath of fresh air to international cinema.  Tickets are $10. For more information, visit the Avon's website.

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