Breathless (film)
Breathless is a 1983 film starring
Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky. It is a remake of the 1960 French film
À bout de souffle (known as Breathless in English), and was released in
France under the title A Bout de Souffle Made in USA. The original film is about
an American girl and a French criminal in Paris. The remake is about a French
girl and an American criminal in Los Angeles.
Cast
Richard Gere - Jesse Lujack
Valérie Kaprisky - Monica Poiccard
Art Metrano - Birnbaum
John P. Ryan - Lt. Parmental
William Tepper - Paul
Robert Dunn - Sgt. Enright
Garry Goodrow - Tony
Berrutti
Lisa Jane Persky - Salesgirl (as Lisa Persky)
James Hong - Grocer
Waldemar Kalinowski - Tomachoff
Jack Leustig - Highway Patrolman
Eugène Lourié - Dr. Boudreaux
(as Eugene Lourié)
Georg Olden - Kid
Miguel Pinero - Carlito
Henry G. Sanders - Man with Pipe
Plot
Jesse Lujack (Richard Gere) is a drifter in Las Vegas, obsessed with Marvel Silver Surfer comic books and the rock 'n' roll music of Jerry Lee Lewis. One day, Jesse steals a car, intending to drive to Los Angeles. As he drives and looks through the owner's possessions, he discovers a gun in the vehicle. Soon, as he has been speeding, a police car tails him and he pulls over. When he attempts to hide the gun, he accidentally shoots the officer. Fleeing to Los Angeles, he finds his picture soon splashed all over the newspaper and TV news.
On the run, Jesse moves in with Monica Poiccard (Valérie Kaprisky), a college girl whom he knows only from a weekend fling in Vegas. She is captivated by this reckless American and resumes her affair with him. However, she has plans for a job and Gere resents the implication that her potential employer may sneak her sexual favors away from him.
Soon the police trace Jesse's involvement to Monica and begin to question her. She is somewhat conflicted, aware of Jesse's instability but drawn to his sense of risk and danger. Thus, when he proposes to her that the two of them go off to Mexico she is tempted to throw her beckoning "normal" life away and pursue a prolonged romantic/sexual fantasy with this reckless man.
On the way to Mexico, Monica finds that
her picture is on the front page of the national newspaper alongside Jesse's,
and phones the police. They corner him in the street, and he sings Jerry Lee Lewis'
"Breathless" to her before grabbing a gun from the ground at his feet.
The film ends in a freeze frame of Jesse turning to face the police with the gun.
So he has been caught.
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