{"id":138479,"date":"2020-04-01T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/01\/ive-never-seen-breathless\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T13:46:16","slug":"ive-never-seen-breathless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=138479","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;ve never seen \u2026\u00a0Breathless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pretty girl, the bad boy, the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es &#8230; nope, never seen Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s debut masterpiece. But I know what it\u2019s about \u2013 don\u2019t I?See the other classic missed films in this seriesI\u2019ve never seen a Jean-Luc Godard movie. Or, I hadn\u2019t, until this assignment. I know, embarrassing, especially for a so-called film critic. I\u2019ve long blamed this gap in my knowledge on the fact that I didn\u2019t take a first year university course in French New Wave cinema, but I know as well as anyone you don\u2019t need to be a student to study. It\u2019s not even that the Nouvelle Vague is a blind spot, necessarily \u2013 I\u2019m an admirer of other films from the movement, such as Alain Resnais\u2019s Hiroshima Mon Amour, Agn\u00e9s Varda\u2019s Cl\u00e9o de 5 \u00e0 7, Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut\u2019s Jules et Jim and Jacques Demy\u2019s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. I\u2019ve been known to treat my lack of interest in Godard\u2019s filmography as something of a comedy bit, joking that I simply prefer Truffaut (he\u2019s less of a basic bitch). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/apr\/01\/ive-never-seen-a-bout-de-souffle-breathless\" target=\"_blank\">I&#039;ve never seen \u2026\u00a0Breathless<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pretty girl, the bad boy, the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es &#8230; nope, never seen Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s debut masterpiece. But I know what it\u2019s about \u2013 don\u2019t I?See the other classic missed films in this seriesI\u2019ve never seen a Jean-Luc Godard movie. Or, I hadn\u2019t, until this assignment. I know, embarrassing, especially for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}