A Bout de Souffle: The Times Film Review

This review of A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) appeared in The Times on July 7, 1961. This debut film by French film director, Jean-Luc Godard, is regarded as a classic of the nouvelle vague (New Wave) period in French cinema. A Bout de Souffle is arguably, historically and aesthetically, the most important film in post-war French cinema, developing the new trend of more spontaneous film-making that had begun in the 1950s. The film was also critically and commercially well received outside France.