Also known as
À bout de souffle
Lists
- ranked 21 in Edward Copeland's Satyajit Ray Memorial Anything-But-Definitive List of Non-English Language Films
- ranked 26 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 30 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- ranked 32 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 63 in Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
- ranked 86 in The Guardian Top 100 Films
- ranked 125 in Empire 500 Greatest Movies (2008)
- one of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- one of 101^w102 Movies You Must See Before...
- one of Guardian 1,000 films to see before you die
- one of Movieline's 100 Best Foreign Films
- one of The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
There's substance here, but let's not kid around: Breathless is interesting and rembered more for its still-remarkable style than its wry, disaffected twist on the story of a crook on the run with his dame.
Watch -- for God's sake, watch; this is the definition of "must-see" -- but don't forget to don your black turtleneck.