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Gate Lates: BREATHLESS
Gate Picturehouse
2: Notting Hill + Holland Park
87 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JZ, UK
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As part of The Gate Picturehouse’s Late Night season, reviving the cinema’s proud tradition of championing adventurous film culture, we present Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960). A landmark of the French New Wave, this stylish tale of a young fugitive and an American student in Paris shattered cinematic conventions with its innovative editing, effortless cool, and modern sensibility. A timeless classic for lovers of film, art, and rebellion.
When:
Midweek & Weekend - open 15mins before the first film.
Saturday/Sunday we open around midday.
Midweek - late afternoon.
Admission
Adult - £9.35 online / £9.50 in person
Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960) – Jean-Luc Godard
A landmark of the French New Wave, Breathless is a stylish, rebellious fusion of cinema, literature, and philosophy. Following a charismatic young criminal drifting through Paris with an American journalism student, Godard transforms a crime story into a meditation on love, identity, freedom, and modern life. Bursting with innovative jump cuts, effortless cool, and references to art, film, and existential thought, Breathless remains as radical and influential today as it was on its release. A film for those who appreciate cinema as a bold artistic statement and a reflection of culture itself.