Breathless 1960 Reflective Writing

    As I have mentioned before I am someone who is interested in watching old films, so I was really excited when I saw that we are going to watch a black and white film from 1960 during our class. I am also interested in watching international films as me myself being born in Europe. I have never heard about the film Breathless before, even that it is not my first watched Neo-noir film from that period. Drama and crime are my favorite film genres so that was another reason that made me interested to see the film even more and to add it on my already watched films list. I have watched French films before, I do not want to sound biased but I do not find French films in general very interesting and they are not my favorite ones. While watching Breathless I had that thought on my mind that the film might be boring but it surprised me positively.

    I found the plot of the film very engaging and it kept me interested till the end. I also did not know what will happen next till the last scene. To be honest I did not like both of the main characters. I found Patricia somehow weird and hard to understand, and Michel get on my nerves all of the time. In my opinion Patricia is someone who does not know what she wants from her life. I kind of expected different ending and in my opinion the film ends like being cut and there should be more scenes in it as we know that its running time is only 90 minutes. 

 I still ended up liking the film in some way and I am glad that I got the opportunity to see it in our class, because probably I would not chose to watch it on my own. I have heard about the famous french film director Jean Luc Goddard before and I have watched his movie The 400 Blows. It was great that we chose to watch his film Breathless in class at the day when he died at the age of 91. In that way we honored his wonderful film career.