Advantages: A wonderful classic which will never go out of date. Disadvantages: Wierd plot line, in fact barely any plot line, strange characters! Subtitled.
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A Bout De Souffle (translated to Breathless in English)
Details:
Directed By: Jean Luc Goddard
Release Date: 7 February 1961
Runtime: 90 minutes
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Starring:
Jean-Paul Delmondo
Jean Seberg
Plot:
Filmed in black and white despite the use of colour coming into use in the film industry in 1935 with the film Becky Sharp by Rouben Marmoulian (this was the first film which was considered a real full length film, but colour was used before this too between the 1920s and 1930s.)
A Bout de Souffle is about a small time criminal Michel Pioccard, who is living in Paris. He has stolen a car, and in the mix he killed the police officer persuing him, no longer a small time thief, he then tries to persuade a young American journalist working in Paris to run away to Italy...
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Advantages: Smell, can size, performance as a deodorant! Disadvantages: None come to mind.
...Now as a young girl, not particularly sporty and more into brands such as Dove, Vaseline and Sure. I was apathetic towards using a deodorant produced by Adidas. I expected it to come out smelling of Lynx and for me to smell like a man.
I usually use Vaseline Pearl, though it never did the job. I found the deodorant was really having to work to stop me from perspiring during the day, and sometimes it didn't.
So I thought I'd give it a try, and I'm very pleasantly surprised, this is a fantastic product! The packaging is feminine and girly, it's very easy to hold and spray, all the good components of a very likeable product!
The smell is sweet, girly and perfumey, not masculine in the slightest, how presumptious of me to assume so!
The deodorant states that it has 3 components to make it what it is, which I assume is the '3' in...
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Advantages: Good thinking film, Adrien Brody Disadvantages: None
...Jack Starks is shot in the head during the Gulf War, where he is serving in the military. Escaping death, he is discharged under medical reasons suffering bouts of amnesia. Hitchhiking through Vermont he comes across a broken down truck. The mother is wasted and throwing up all over the roadside while her young daughter stands there helplessly waiting for someone to come along. Jack fixes the car and gives his dog tags to the enchanting little girl, Jackie, just before her mother bundles her into the car and they drive off leaving Jack behind.
Later another driver picks him up and they head off. Not long after they are pulled over by the police, who is unfortunately shot by said driver and due to Jack's bouts of amnesia he is set up as the shooter. His trial concludes he is not guilty by reasons of insanity and he is sent to Alpen...
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Production Year: 1959 - Drama - Director: Jean-Luc Godard - Original Language: French - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville