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5.0 out of 5 stars Richard Gere is sensational, Feb 29 2000

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Oddur (Iceland) - See all my reviews

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I loved Breathless the first time I saw it and I have watched it many, many times now. The main reason is Gere's performance. It may not be his best but it's his most original and spaced-out performance of his career. The movie itself is quite entertaining, but no masterpiece. It never takes itself too seriously and mostly depends on the charms of Gere to keep it going. The ending is the best part, where his character seems to have nowhere to go and everything is closing down on him, and his only answer is to escape to his fantasy world and of course; sing the opening lines to Jerry Lee Lewis's Breathless. Another plus is the music, for this is the only film I know of that has Presley's Suspicious Minds playing in the background.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the five greatest films of ALL TIME........22 Sep2001, Sep 22 2001

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I'm a serious film buff and I agree with many of the experts assessments of the truly great films. But, without doubt, this film proves that they can get it so wrong, for this is a truly classic film. Like the great classics, it captures so completely, a particular period in time, a particulat theme. In the case of Breathless, youthful love and all its consuming and eternal extremes is so sublimely captured, so subtely, I'm left wondering why this work of art, this masterpiece, has been overlooked for so long. Like all great works of art that were dismissed in their day, however long it takes, they eventually get the recognition they deserve. At the time, it was sacriledge to even attempt a remake of the classic French film director, Jean Luc Godard, let alone his favoured 1961 film, "A bout de Souffle" (Breathless). This film goes way beyond the original and captures the eternal energy that can come to exist between two people, so well and without the pretence and self absorbtion that hamstrung the original. Without doubt, the experts have missed the point with Breathless, this film needs to be absorbed from a spiritual perspective. Don't be fooled by the street wise hustler with the jazzy clothes, the pretty girlfriend and the sometimes moral bankruptcy. Beyond the aesthetics, lies the real essence of this film and it goes much deeper than a series of smart lines scripted for such films as Citizen Kane. Breathless is, without doubt, one of the five greatest films of ALL TIME.

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2.0 out of 5 stars If you had to pick 10 Richard Gere films ..., May 2 2004

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Just say you were asked to pick 10 of Richard Gere's all time great films. Ok, I agree he's probably only done 5 great films so finding 10 enough would be hard. But I think I could do it. "Breathless", however would not be included because it is one of the most boring and ridiculous films I have seen. Back in 1983 it hit the cinemas and people went and saw it because of Richard Gere's full frontal nudity. But blink and you will miss those bits, they are so fast on your screen.

"Breathless" may be a remake of a French classic, but that does not make it a masterpiece.

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