Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature is one of the most revolutionary films ever made—a film that shattered the conventions of cinema storytelling and permanently changed the language of film. Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a small-time car thief on the run after shooting a policeman, drags his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg) into his reckless flight from the law. Shot on the streets of Paris with a handheld camera and edited with jump cuts that announced a new way of seeing, Breathless is at once a loving homage to American B-movies and the opening manifesto of the French New Wave.