Breathless / A Bout De Souffle (1988R)

An original 1988 UK re-release Recorded Releasing Black and White Publicity Still #BS-6, unframed.

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg as Michel and Patricia, from the long hotel-room sequence at the heart of Breathless.

Godard let the scene run for more than twenty minutes of a ninety-minute film, and it broke every rule of how a love scene was meant to work. Patricia quotes Faulkner's The Wild Palms, "between grief and nothing I will take grief", and Michel replies that he would choose nothing, the whole film in a single exchange. Issued to the press for the 1988 UK re-release, this is the room where the New Wave seems to happen.

• Year: 1960 (UK re-release 1988)
• Nationality: United Kingdom
• Type: Original Black and White Publicity Still, UK re-release
• Size: 8 x 10 inches
• Framed Size: 13 x 15 inches
• Condition: Unframed
• Product Code: T7397