Movie Journal 1

À bout de souffle(English: Breathless) is a 1960 French drama film directed by Jean Luc Godard. It's about a young theif who is on the run from the police for stealing cars and selling them, who is madly in love with a young women, he convinces her to run away with him to italy, but she betrays him to the police at the end, it's a tragic love story. Other than the fact it's a black and white movie what interested me the most is the $400,00 budget, and the profit they got is $67, 464, i can't imagine how much the actors got paid. Almost from the beginning till the end the dubbing was so bad, and what I found out after online was, "Almost the whole film had to be dubbed in postproduction because of the noisiness of the Cameflex camera" well no wonder I had a really hard time reading the english subtitles and figuring out wether the girl or the guy said it. But you got to give it to them, for a year 1960 it was pretty good movie, it even won awards, for Best Director, for Best Film. This movie was supposedly only 87 minutes but it felt like 2 hours, only 500 more to go.