Breathless (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Breathless Alternative title for Austria: out of breath |
| Original title | Breathless |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jim McBride |
| script | Jim McBride, LM Kit Carson |
| production | Martin Erlichman |
| music | Jack Nitzsche |
| camera | Richard H. Kline |
| cut |
Robert Estrin , Rachel Igel |
| occupation | |
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Breathless (Original title: Breathless ) is an American crime drama - drama from the year 1983 by director Jim McBride with Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky in the lead roles. It is a remake of the French film Out of Breath by Jean-Luc Godard from 1960.
action
Petty crook Jesse Lujack drives from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in a stolen Porsche . There he wants to visit the architecture student Monica Poiccard, with whom he spent a few nights in Las Vegas. A police officer stops him on the way. To create an opportunity to escape, Lujack shoots the police officer with the gun found in the car and is accidentally fatal. He leaves the gun at the crime scene.
Jesse finds Monica during an oral exam she is taking. He disrupts the exam, Monica is upset. She later explains that she was only with him briefly on vacation and asks what he wants from her. Monica and Jesse make up and make love. She then goes to a university appointment that is important for her academic career.
The police identify Lujack. He approaches Monica, who is being followed by a police officer. She warns Jesse by speaking to the cop out loud. Jesse steals a car, drives over the cop, and convinces Monica to get in. After a moment she gets into the car.
Jesse tries to convince Monica to go to Mexico with him . She asks more and more about her future. Finally she calls the police and wants Jesse to flee to Mexico alone. Jesse meets a friend who gives him money and a gun. Jesse doesn't want the gun, his friend throws it on the floor. Policemen approach from several sides and target him with their weapons. Jesse provokes the police with a dance performance to an imaginary soundtrack ( Breathless by Jerry Lee Lewis ). With a quick twisting motion, he grabs the gun lying on the asphalt and points it at the police officers. The picture freezes - the end of the film remains open.
background
The English original title Breathless is also a song by the musician Jerry Lee Lewis . Jesse Lujack also expresses his enthusiasm for Jerry Lee Lewis in the film.
In the German dubbing , Frank Glaubrecht speaks the voice of Richard Gere , Madeleine Stolze the voice of Valérie Kaprisky and Berno von Cramm took over the voice of William Tepper .
Reviews
“A reflection on the impossibility of true love in a violent environment and a variation on the 'amour fou' theme. The film thrives on the presence of its outstanding main actor and on the rock'n'roll music and sense of time. "
“The fact that beautiful people search hard for each other in well-groomed surroundings and hug hard doesn't make a cult film. The Belmondo part is played by the new Hollywood idol Richard Gere, and it can be assumed that McBride embarked on the 'breathless' adventure because of him. [..] As an over-the-top car thief and heartbreaker, who curves to his death with screeching tires and dances through his last days more than he goes through, Gere pulls off such an over-the-top act that you actually only see the vanity instead of the acting, with the Gere wants to demonstrate that he can also be Robert de Niro. "
literature
- Leonore Fleischer : Breathless. The novel for the film with Richard Gere (original title: Breathless ). German by Anna von Cramer-Klett. 4th edition. Heyne (Munich 1986) 185 pp. ISBN 3-453-01846-X
Web links
- Breathless in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Breathless at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Breathless at Metacritic (English)
- Breathless in the online film database
- Breathless in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for breathless . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2015 (PDF; test number: 54 114 V).
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , CD-ROM
- ^ Breathless in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Film: Alte Welle in Der Spiegel from October 24, 1983