Breathless (1983 film)

Breathless
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJim McBride
Screenplay by
Based onBreathless
1960 film
by Jean-Luc Godard
Produced byMartin Erlichman
Starring
CinematographyRichard H. Kline
Edited by
Music byJack Nitzsche
Distributed byOrion Pictures
Release date
  • May 13, 1983 (1983-05-13)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7.5 million[1]
Box office$19.9 million

Breathless is a 1983 American neo-noir romantic thriller film[2] directed by Jim McBride, written by McBride and L. M. Kit Carson, and starring Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky. It is a remake of the 1960 French film of the same name directed by Jean-Luc Godard and written by Godard and François Truffaut. The original film is about an American woman and a French criminal in Paris, while the remake is vice versa in Los Angeles.

  1. ^ "The Unstoppables". Spy. November 1988. p. 92.
  2. ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5