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  • Breathless from the speed with which he ran, and hardly knowing what he did, he threw himself on his knees before her, and, seizing her hands, bathed them with his tears.

    The Old Manor House 1793

  • In film, Brecht's greatest disciple has been Jean-Luc Godard, a past master at keeping us at a distance with all sorts of winks and nods -- many of them first perpetrated by Jean-Paul Belmondo in the 1960 landmark film "Breathless" -- while pulling us back into the emotional fold with romance and ineffable poetry.

    The Winking Camera 2008

  • The UK teaser trailer for Yang Ik-June’s Breathless is short but not very sweet.

    /Film UK - Andy Serkis Enjoys Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Grown Women Dressed as Schoolgirls, a Man Hitting a Woman, a Possessed Chicken and More | /Film 2009

  • To be fair to it – although I don't really know why I should be – it has its moments of tenderness, but mostly it's flatulent and indulgent and so, so boring, a film made by someone who's just seen like this really awesome new French movie called Breathless by this dude Godard.

    Venice film festival 2010

  • Like trying to get me to call Breathless A Bout de Souffle, I just can't do it again immediately it brings to mind how much we have lost thanks to the wide dissemination, via cable and the internet, of knowledge about nature.

    Grievous battily harm Arbogast 2009

  • This being Godard, it's highly unlikely he ever intended to remake his first film as he told a journalist at one point, the film was not going to be called Breathless Numéro Deux, but Numéro Deux Breathless, and by the time it came out any reference to the film it was ostensibly revisiting had been dropped altogether.

    Numéro Deux Ed Howard 2008

  • This being Godard, it's highly unlikely he ever intended to remake his first film as he told a journalist at one point, the film was not going to be called Breathless Numéro Deux, but Numéro Deux Breathless, and by the time it came out any reference to the film it was ostensibly revisiting had been dropped altogether.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • "Breathless" - and sitting there with a class, I get to see them again for the first time.

    NYT > Home Page By MANOHLA DARGIS 2012

  • This year's screen-burner was Goddard's Breathless, which is just how I felt after watching hunky

    the latest from teenvogue.com 2010

  • A new series called Breathless is making its debut, and it, too, will be fiercely tough in summer's heat.

    The Seattle Times 2009

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