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- 1983
- R
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
- 1983
- R
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
Summary When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate- but when will it end?
Directed By: Jim McBride
- 1983
- R
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
- 1983
- R
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 40 m
Breathless
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Summary When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate- but when will it end?
Directed By: Jim McBride
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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54% Positive
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15% Mixed
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31% Negative
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4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
52
54% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
31% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
But the slickness grows mesmeric and the performance unexpectedly wrenching as each trip Gere takes in a succession of classic cars brings him ever closer to his fate, a fate sealed the moment he drops a gun on top of a Silver Surfer comic while speeding through the desert to the accompaniment of Jerry Lee Lewis in the same type of Porsche that James Dean rode to his death.
Kaprisky, as the young French student, is an unknown in a role too large and complex for her, and there are times when she seems lost in a scene, looking to Gere for guidance. The result is a stylistic exercise without any genuine human concerns we can identify with - and yet, an exercise that does have a command of its style, is good-looking, fun to watch, and develops a certain morbid humor.
Much like Body Heat, which valorized noirish archetypes instead of examining their original social contexts, Breathless simply has a hard-on for Hollywood lore, as convertibles, rockabilly, and monochromatic lighting are utilized to enshrine dominant legacies rather than invert or, at least, probe them.
McBride's presentation of Richard Gere is frankly pornographic, perhaps the only way to handle this Victor Mature of the 80s; Valerie Kaprisky costars—meekly.
It's foul, with so little left to the imagination that we get a look between his toes. [13 May 1983, p.19]
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