Breathless
The film follows Jesse who steals a car to get out of Las Vegas. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, and the crimes escalate.
8 April 1903, Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
6 January 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 June 1922, Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA
20 July 1924, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
18 August 1942, Houston, Texas, USA
November 12, 2004
A much better remake than its reputation implies
August 30, 2004
I still don't understand why Mr. McBride and Mr. Carson elected to do the film but, considering the more obvious possible pitfalls, they could have done a lot worse. That is meant to be praise.
January 01, 2000
The attitudes on display are so distanced and derivative that the picture still seems to have no life or identity of its own.
January 17, 2003
An inferior remake, but trashy fun nonetheless.
April 03, 2015
"Breathless" is both sexy and maddening in the best way.
August 12, 2004
The result is a stylistic exercise without any genuine human concerns we can identify with -- and yet, an exercise that does have a command of its style, is good-looking, fun to watch, and develops a certain morbid humor.
