- Alamo Drafthouse icon logo. Breathless (1983). ... JLG's original film was a shocking provocation that, by 1983, had codified into a canonical classic.
- As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, and the crimes escalate. Breathless is a 1983 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Jim McBride...
- Action, drama, romance. Director: Jim McBride. Starring: Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano and others. Breathless is a 1983 American drama film directed...
- Browse 218 ratings, read reviews, watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, and check out statistics for this 1983 romance drama suspense/thriller action film.
- Breathless is a remake of a French New Wave film of the same name, with French criminal and American muse.
- The movie was widely panned at the time though and of course when you say “remake of BREATHLESS with Richard Gere” now it doesn’t sound very respectable.
- When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, and the crimes escalate.
- The breathless shooting style lingers forever on Gere's pumping, preening narcissism ... A wanton, playful film, belying the stated despair by its boiling energy. CPea.