Movie Substrate · Film

Breathless (1960)

★ 7.5 · 2,026 ratings on TMDB

Wild! Violent! Outspoken and Honest!

Breathless poster★ 7.5

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

DirectorJean-Luc Godard
CastClaude Mansard, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville
GenresCrime, Drama
The emergence reading

Breathless keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceFR
Explore Movie Substrate → Where to watch ↗ TMDB ↗ Rotten Tomatoes ↗ Ask about this film → Reading look wrong? → Copy link

Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)E8/E10Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)E8/E10Shutter Island (2010)E8/E10Suicide Squad (2016)E8/E10Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)E8/E10The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)E8/E10

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Hail, Caesar! (2016)E9/E11 · Crime, DramaGomorrah (2008)E9/E11 · Crime, DramaElite Squad (2007)E9/E11 · Crime, DramaThe Siege (1998)E11/E12 · Crime, DramaElite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)E11/E12 · Crime, DramaA Conspiracy of Faith (2016)E11/E12 · Crime, Drama

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Pierrot le Fou (1965)dir. Jean-Luc GodardVivre Sa Vie (1962)dir. Jean-Luc GodardAlphaville (1965)dir. Jean-Luc GodardShoot the Piano Player (1960)Claude MansardTwo Women (1960)Jean-Paul BelmondoAirport (1970)Jean Seberg