Breathless / A Bout De Souffle (1960)
Original b&w publicity/photo still #B-4 from Breathless/ À bout de souffle (1960).
Capturing the film’s playful irreverence and revolutionary spirit, hallmarks of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave breakthrough. The film reshaped modern cinema through its casual performances, jump cuts, street photography aesthetic, and rejection of classical romantic ideals. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg became icons of youthful cool, embodying a new kind of screen couple defined by spontaneity, irony, and emotional ambiguity.
The image shows Michel and Patricia in a candid Paris street moment, she leans in to kiss his cheek as he smokes, half smiling beneath his fedora. Newspaper kiosks and urban textures frame the scene, grounding it in everyday life while reinforcing the film’s documentary realism. The contrast between intimacy and detachment, her affectionate gesture against his distracted posture, captures the restless, flirtatious tension at the heart of Breathless, making this still one of the film’s most recognisable and emblematic images.
- Year: 1960
- Size: 8 X 10 Inches
- Condition: Unframed
- Product Code: T6414
