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Where was Breathless filmed?

1960 film, directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

  • avenue des Champs-Élysées

The story is set in Paris, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Paris; Marseille; avenue des Champs-Élysées; rue Campagne-Première
Filmed in
avenue des Champs-Élysées
Distance
About 412 miles (663 km) between Marseille and the nearest filming location.
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About Breathless

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Released
1960
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Cast
Jean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergDaniel BoulangerJean-Pierre MelvilleAndré S. LabartheClaude MansardFrançois MoreuilHenri-Jacques HuetJacques SiclierJean Domarchi
Genre
DramaCrime
Awards
Silver Bear for Best Director; French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards; Prix Jean Vigo

Michel Poiccard, a young and brash criminal who idolizes American movie gangsters, steals a car in Marseille and heads for Paris.

Now a wanted man, he arrives in Paris and seeks out Patricia Franchini, an American student and aspiring journalist, with whom he had a recent affair.

Michel ultimately persuades Patricia to sleep with him again, though she remains uncertain about their relationship and Michel's criminal behavior, and is unwilling to accede to his desire to run away to Rome together.

Famous lines from Breathless

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  • Thích Nhất Hạnh in Being PeaceBreathless
  • Cleanliness is necessary out of doors and in the human breathing. The imperil exhaled by irritated people is identical with filth, or shameful refuse. 293Breathless

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