Word: punk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breathless (in French). A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk...
Breathless (in French). A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk...
Breathless. A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk...
Adultery is the cleverest of the seven episodes-a cynical little satire on a well-known Gallic institution: the ménage à trois. While dining out one day, a young bachelor (played by Jean-Paul Belmondo, the post-existentialist punk in Breathless, who proves roguishly engaging in romantic comedy) gives a neglected wife (Dany Robin) the old let's-do-it look. She looks right back. Wearing his horns jauntily, the husband invites the bachelor home for lunch. "My wife hates money," he murmurs casually, "so she spends it as fast as she can. By the way, when...
...hold the .38 in his quivering hands. All at once the rifles, the tear-gas bombs, the fortressed cells-all the immense impersonal machinery of justice begins to seem absurdly excessive and inappropriate. All at once the spectator understands, vaguely and perhaps a little guiltily, that the young punk he has been sneering at for an hour or so is after all a human being. Gently, the priest shows him that the situation is hopeless, leads him sobbing to the waiting...