At the age of fifty Poiccard loose again

It was a case of friends. There were Jean-Paul, an actor also leaping beginner, and Jean-Luc, a critic who had the insolence to believe filmmaker. They worshipped the Pocket Books that it does not hesitate to corner, the stories of hard to cook well chrome car and well rolled troublesome. In the end, the film has looked nothing of what had been seen until then.

"A end of breath" tells the adventure of a small typo in felt hats named Michel Poiccard. He steals a car in Marseille back to Paris. Along the way, in a sudden control, he kills a police officer. In his flight, he found Patricia, a beautiful American student who sells the "New York Herald Tribune" on the fields. They share a tender moment under the roof, the cops catch up, it betrays the and looks die flingué on cobblestones. Belmondo said he found it really ugly. Seberg tilted her face of mischievous Angel on the camera and rumored with a taste of honey focus: "what is it ugly". The film ends. The film will never be more as before.

In 1960, "A end of breath" not inaugurates the new wave, but will become his most masterful banner in the company of the "four hundred blows" that Truffaut filmed a year earlier. Truffaut is the author of the first version of the scenario, adapted a fact.

Petri dish of love, the first Godard may only be a huge and vain tribute. Jean-Pierre Melville appears on the detour of a plan, the icon Bogart comes out as a Zippo flame, the partition of Martial Solal imposes its jazzy tempo black and white everything contributes to "A end of breath" a pastiche of polar. Except that Godard used his credentials as a springboard to novelty. Failed editing squat sequences from each other. This surprising pile-up of images carved a strange and unprecedented, form curious face Cubist, cheeky and fun. Monster happy, "A end of breath" is allows a mythical arms of honour opening: Belmondo set the camera to announce to the spectators who love the sea, mountain or city, they can go fuck off!

Over time, the scandalous aspect of the film is evaporated and his ban to minors at its output took an obsolete taste. It has also a little forgotten represented a model of event communication. Press Officer Richard Balducci had invited journalists on the filming and left running some crunchy rumours. The film was accompanied by derivatives: novellisation and fumetti, disc of the band originale "End of breath" remains yet incorrect, immortal and lightweight. This decisive work refuses to be among the classics of cinema along with monuments such as "Children of paradise" or "citizen kane". Is this short hair of Jean Seberg, his dress striped that Godard has personally chosen in the rays of a Prisunic, or even the cibiche rebel and the flashy Belmondo basketballs Is it natural and full of fresh light rains of louvres either the summer wind that caress the boulevards of Paris in backlighting Today, "A piece of breath" is not the time to blow his candles. "Now I CharCol, Alphonse", crânait Bebel. At the age of fifty, Poiccard loose again.