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À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) (1960)

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · Cinematography by Raoul Coutard

90 min60 frames

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What is À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) about?

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Breathless is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a wandering criminal named Michel, and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend Patricia. The film was Godard's first feature-length work and represented Belmondo's breakthrough as an actor.

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What does the cinematography of À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) look like?

Across 59 sampled frames, À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) builds its coverage from medium shots (46% of the sample), with close-ups (29%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Raoul Coutard keeps 56% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 58% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1960s.

What is the color palette of À Bout De Souffle (Breathless)?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) (1960) are #050505, #4b4b4b, #2d2d2d, #8d8d8d, #cbcbcb, #6f6f6f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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