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Petty thug Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) considers himself a suave bad guy in the manner of Humphrey Bogart, but panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car. On the lam, he turns to his aspiring journalist girlfriend, Patricia (Jean Seberg), hiding out in her Paris apartment while he tries to pull together enough money to get the pair to Italy. But when Patricia learns that her boyfriend is being investigated for murder, she begins to question her loyalties.
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"The subject will be the story of a boy who thinks about death and that of a girl who doesn't." That's French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard in the planning stages of his 1960 debut, Breathless . The real subject of this precocious classic, which gets a new-print, 50th-anniversary rerelease today at the Dallas Angelika, is film itself. (Full review)