{"id":6261,"date":"2026-04-02T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:52:54","slug":"a-bout-de-souffle-aka-breathless-by-jean-luc-godard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/02\/a-bout-de-souffle-aka-breathless-by-jean-luc-godard\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>\u00c0 bout de souffle<\/em> aka <em>Breathless<\/em> by Jean-Luc Godard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 After watching Linklater\u2019s <em>Nouvelle Vague<\/em> (twice by now), it becomes even more enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 As Sarris once said, jump cuts represent &#8220;the meaninglessness of the time interval between moral decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 In this contest of unalike <em>amoral<\/em> dispositions, detached dissection defeats impulsive violence.<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, I watched every Bogart movie I could catch as often as I could, and I do understand the fascination.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Breathless_(1960_film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>\u00c0 bout de souffle<\/em> aka <em>Breathless<\/em><\/a> by Jean-Luc Godard, 1960.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on March 25, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/02\/a-bout-de-souffle-aka-breathless-by-jean-luc-godard\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \u00c0 bout de souffle aka Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Back when chain-smoking was the rage.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6361,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions\/6361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}