Breathless (À bout de souffle) reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2020
- Mark Kermode reviews Breathless. A 60th anniversary remaster of Jean-Luc Godard's much celebrated film.
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I like Godard’s early films but I also like how much Mark dislikes them.
“Jump cuts”
I am STILL laughing 😂
Kermode's masterclass on French New Wave was better than my six months of learning it at college.
Fun fact: Goddard was using jumpcuts before any RUclipsr.
😆
#Brecht was using alienation before Godard.
We're all out of Soufflé! 🤣🤣 The new vagueness... I still love rewatching his rant on JLG!
Seeing Mark Kermode quote his Film Socialisme review extensively warmed my heart.
Me too! I still rewatch that review for a mood boost!
-Jumpcuts.
-Is that it?
-Ehh...yeah. Pretty much.
As a fan of the Nouvelle Vague and À bout de souffle I disagree with nearly everthing Mark said, BUT: I want this on a t-shirt.
I was totally let down by this because it was NOT about a souffle.
Kermode with that 4K Dawn set.
Saw that, can't wait to get my hands on it
Me before watching the video - I wonder how long it will take for Kermode to mention the Jim McBride remake.
Me at 1:11 - Here we go...
Can’t lie, I found this review quite annoying. Usually if I don’t agree with Mark I still respect his opinion, but someone with influence on filmmakers and film fans shouldn’t discredit such influential work, that changed film so drastically and influences most directors to this day.
Tarantino references Godard directly in most of his films, and most directors reference the French New Wave still, as the jumps it made from the Hitchcock 50s were so drastic.
I’m surprised he’s discredited one of the most exciting movements in cinema, reducing it to ‘jump cuts’.
Still respect Mark but surely he has some responsibility to the audience!
I mean, if you watch it back that's about all that's worth keeping from it. Just about everything else has aged terribly.
@@mollers92 So... self awareness/awareness of the audience at the ascendance of post modernism. The birth of auteur theory. The notion of not having to spoon feed audiences information. Real location shooting with smaller, handheld cameras, instead of big cameras in studio sets, that gave cinema a HUGE refresh, when Hollywood was plummeting with its studio contracts? perhaps its you who should watch it back? 💁♂️
The French New Wave has influenced all modern cinema, for Mark to have discredited it is damaging to young people, who may gain a wealth of insight into cinema from the French New Wave (like I did).
I've struggled with Godard for years; with a few exceptions I just haven't found his films all that entertaining, yet I keep coming back hoping I'll finally get it. Maybe if I were a young person when Breathless premiered its innovations would hit me more profoundly (I compare my relationship with Godard to young people who weren't alive when Pulp Fiction came out and think Tarantino is "just okay"). Still, it's nice to see a respected film critic who seems to be on the same wavelength as me where Jean-Luc is concerned.
It honestly helped me to go back and look at influences of Godard, especially when it comes to a specific piece. For example, I love Le Mepris but had a hard time understanding it. Then I read that he was inspired by Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia and after seeing that I feel like I have a better understanding of how he views and makes film.
Fun fact - Godard is the only New Wave director to extensively use jump cuts (Agnes Varda sort of does as well). Anyway the French New Wave is definitely not without it's flaws and many of the films are dated. But cinema would not the same without it and there are many films that are still brilliant (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Rohmer's Moral Tales, La Bonheur for example). Kermode seems to dismiss it in a way he wouldn't with any other movement from around the world. I guess he likes to indulge in the salt-of-the-earth Little Englander mindset sometimes.
"...jump cuts"
- that actually made me laugh a little too loudly.
Jean-Luc Godaaaaaaaaaaa...Brings back memories of a classic review and much, much better times in the world. So recent, yet so far.
I always prefer the films of Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer over those of Godard.
I often find films by Varda and Resnais offer more rewards also. Truffaut and Godard are very hit-and-miss.
Terrible review. I'm no great fan of the film either but it's undeniably influential and the re-release provides an opportunity for much of the moviegoing and radio-listening public to experience and make up their own mind about an important moment in cinema history. Not that you'd know that from these comments: instead we get prevarication, dismissal, wilful ignorance and the same tired jokes from previous godard reviews and, I'm sure, future godard reviews.
Anyone who is interested in film as a medium should watch A Bout De Soufflé. At the very least, it's a reminder of the great and challenging potential of independent cinema and its DIY ethos.
My autocorrect is funnier than Mark
I understand why this film is influential....doesnt stop me hating it and being flippant about it.
Jean Luc Godaaaaaaargh!
This is a hidden, reserved kermode rant up there with the best most shouty of them.
I remember seeing this in my French class, when I was in school
Totally agree Mark .
I love Kermode's French lessons.
I just saw it in the theatre at the french film festival loved it
Nothing personal, I admire you Mr. Kermode, but I guess sometimes you have to be french speaking to truly enjoy Nouvelle Vague for it's irreverence and poetry. I mean, Alphaville... Jumps cuts? Really?
Wow, I was so shocked to hear how much Mark prefers the '80s remake to the original, totally did not expect that! 🙄 .....
I love Breathless have it on dvd
I find it difficult to like Goddard without all the baggage or hype that his pretentiousness brings. It is seminal but things that are groundbreaking aren’t always great. They are just different.
0:18 Jean-Luc Godaaahrg
Goddaaaaaaaaarghhhh... whazaaaaaaaaa'
Counting down till he mentions he prefers the remake
1.14
Also the remake of solaris is garbage
Jump cuts.
Fair 'nuff.
How to dismiss a great filmmaker in three minutes. There are other opinions available!
I really like the Corrs' song which this film is based on.
joking about liking a Corrs song is just not realistic.
@@antygod I'm trying to think of a song of theirs that genuinely slaps but I'm out.
He didn’t really review the film did he?
I’ve tried about 7 or 8 of Godards films now and I just can’t get into them. Some are just fine, some are turgid. This ones PROBABLY the best but not by much.
Breathless is nowhere near his best lol. Contempt, Pierrot le Fou, Weekend, Alphaville, and Band of Outsiders are his best movies.
I dont mind that Kermode doesn’t care for Godard or Breathless (it’s a fun little film though) or seemingly any French movies (he’s English so biologically I guess he cannot.) Though saying that 1980s remake of Breathless is anything less than a pitiful slog (how can you remake a film with no plot and make it even longer? The Lion King CGI remake did something similar: added 30mins but zero new content) is ridiculous. Though at the very end where Gere is randomly dancing in the street was pretty funny.
However, a movie such as Uncut Gems? Now *that* is the real American version of Breathless. That film tapped into the filmmaking fever of directors like Godard and left you “out of breath”.
Top 10 least favourite movies. Unless you're going to force yourself to like it because it's jean luc godard (and that means something to you) or you're heavy in to french pretention... I'd avoid it.
au revoir tendre voyou, RIP cher Bébel
insane to even try and compare the trashfire that was the jim mcbride film to the absolute classic of cinema that is the godard film, kermode still on his godard hate train 10 years after he disliked film socialisme, not sure what his problem with godard is but every time mark never misses a chance to attack the man and undermine his contribution to cinema
Finally watched this film a few days ago and it was... fine, a bit boring in places and funny in others. I haven't watched too many French new wave films but the ones I have I just don't really get.
If you don’t get it, you just don’t get it.
Spot on sir 🥃 x
😂
learned nothing here.
"Solaris"? I can understand that Tarkovsky's poetic style isn't for everybody but I'm really surprised that a film critic is suggesting that Sodebergh's version is a better film.
I hate this film with a passion, never got why it's considered so great.
😂 It's so heartening to hear Mark dissing the overrated Godard/FNW. I worried it was just me. That said, Vivre Sa Vie is a corker.
Ugh this is the worst take I've ever heard
This was a dreadful review sheesh!
It was wonderful
How do you seriously review a film that everyone already has an opinion on