Breathless (A bout de souffle) 斷了氣

There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless.

With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless (A bout de souffle) helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.

米修是個不受道德束縛的輕狂青年，殺人偷車視作等閒，終於因殺警成為通緝犯。他在巴黎街頭邂逅性感美籍女子，深深為之著迷；為逃過法律制裁，游說她雙雙遠赴意大利，展開新生活。然而，過去的陰霾始終揮之不去，一次的出賣令結局從此逆轉。男女主角尚保羅．貝蒙多及珍茜寶懾人的演出，充份表現了當時年青人的反叛及對社會的批判，導演高達的嶄新拍攝手法令《斷了氣》成為法國電影新浪潮的經典示範作。