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Tarfumes.com - Breathless (1983)
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List Price: $9.94
Our Price: $0.28
Your Save: $ 9.66 ( 97% )
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, John P. Ryan, William Tepper
Directed By: Jim McBride
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792844662
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0792844661
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 2000-04-04
Running Time: 101
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Lifeless
Comment: I've not seen Jean-Luc Godard's original but it has to be better than this overripe film. I'd call it a case of style over substance but there's no discernible style here. Richard Gere's preening narcissistic punk is downright grating. You wonder what Valerie Kaprisky's architecture student sees in this jerk. But, then, Kaprisky's only real talent on display here is shedding her clothes. Which leads to the film's mandatory love scenes. Boring! There's no compelling reason to see this mediocrity.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I liked it!
Comment: The two leads were incredibly beautiful actors, who were enjoyable to watch. The storyline held my interest and I thought Richard Gere did a great job. His obsession with the French woman and his shiftlessness were believable. I've never seen the original film.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Loved it!
Comment: Yes this film had a silly plot but if you love Richard Gere and can remember some crazy dumb things you did when you were younger, this is a pretty good film. I also think women can relate to this film more, just because of Richard Gere!
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Summary: The eighties reach a cinematic low point
Comment: This movie exemplifies some of the worst of that splashy, colorful, cocaine-fueled 1980s media bilge from which I am still trying to recover twenty-plus years later. Richard Gere is cast as a boyish, mischievious cop-killer (??) with a devil-may-care spring in his step. Apparently the viewer is supposed to find him charming and sympathetic, although he is a complete loon. He is supposed to be a rockabilly, but his outfits look more appropriate for the tenderloin district than for a 50s revival. He spends the entire film prancing, posing, leaping, mugging, and cavorting, mainly because the screenwriters have given him nothing interesting to say.
Gere's love interest in the film is a very young and beautiful European gal who can't act her way out of a paper bag. The movie fails to convey any reason why her character would find Gere's character interesting, except that he drives a convertible and likes to leap around and break things. Even when she strips naked and lets Gere paw at her, sparks do not fly. Perhaps this is because Gere acts like a man who has never been on a date with a female before... he fumbles about and looks distracted, and he can't even seem to find her earlobes to nibble them properly. I found myself tempted to try to leap into the screen and say "outta the way, loser! Let me show you how it's done!!" I am not making any insinuations about Gere's sexuality, which is probably none of my business. I am just saying he cannot act.. or couldn't in 1983, anyway.
I would have given this ill-conceived disaster just one star. But the girl is nice to look at, and the movie is so bad that it can actually might be viewed for its comic value. So I added a star. If you find this at a garage sale for 50 cents or less, get it, otherwise, steer clear.
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Summary: Amazing. Simply Amazing.
Comment: Amazing. Simply Amazing. No...I'm not commenting on the high quality of BREATHLESS: THE REMAKE, as I shall call it. Rather, I am amazed at whoever gave the green light on this disaster of a remake. I mean, come on: what were they thinking?
"Let's do a remake of one of the greatest films of all time!"
"Yeah! That's a great idea! Remakes of film classics are always better than the original or, at least, great in their own right!"
"While we're at it, let's put Richard Gere in the title role."
"Oh boy! Let me go get my pen! I don't want to lose a single idea!"
"Hey...you know how the original BREATHLESS takes place in France with an American girl?"
"Yeah..."
"We could make the film in America and use a French girl!"
"Yes! This is good stuff! Keep it coming!"
No. Please. Don't keep it coming. Let me burst the bubble: BREATHLESS: THE REMAKE is neither better than the original, nor is it a good film in its own right. Let's deal with my second claim first. As a standalone picture, this film is a relatively boring study of Richard Gere in his "hotpants" days, a self-centered idiot who is running from the cops and lusts after a French student. Of course, all of the ingredients were there for an interesting movie: self-centered idiots can make for interesting character studies. But the problem for BREATHLESS THE REMAKE is that Gere never manages to win our support and sympathy. The result is that, instead of rooting for his character and feeling sorry for his circumstances, I wanted him to get caught the entire film. We get the feeling that his troubles are well-deserved. He is not a man engaged in relatively "innocent" crime that suddenly gets caught up in murder. Instead, he's kind of a jerk that is asking for it.
Secondly, as a remake, this film is horrendous. Perhaps it is not all Gere's fault--he has been horribly miscast. It's really not even worth mentioning BREATHLESS: THE REMAKE in the same sentence as the original. This film is simply a Hollywood production with the same name.
If you loved the original, don't see this film. If you want to see Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky naked, then BREATHLESS: THE REMAKE is your kind of movie.
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