JEAN SEBERG AND JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO - Lot 104

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JEAN SEBERG AND JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO - Lot 104
JEAN SEBERG AND JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO Scene from Jean-Luc Godard’s film *Breathless*, 1959. Photograph, vintage silver print, captioned and annotated on the back. 13 x 18.5 cm. Note: In *Breathless*, Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film, Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Michel Poiccard, a young delinquent fascinated by Humphrey Bogart who is on the run after killing a police officer. Having taken refuge in Paris, he meets Patricia Franchini, an American student played by Jean Seberg, who sells the *New York Herald Tribune* on the Champs-Élysées and dreams of becoming a journalist. Amid casualness, attraction, and mistrust, their relationship leads to betrayal and then to Michel’s death. Filmed on the streets of Paris with a lightweight camera, using natural light, and marked by Cécile Decugis’s jarring editing, the film breaks with classic narrative conventions. Released in 1960, it became a seminal work of the French New Wave and established Jean-Paul Belmondo as a star. A small tear at one corner and a paperclip mark.
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