8/10
Yep, took me this long to get around to this classic...great, fun movie but I can't help but think that anyone watching a Godard movie in 2009 will, for the most part, miss out on what made them so special back in 1960. Godard seems very much "of his time" and while it's possible to still appreciate and enjoy them now, you can't help but feeling you're missing out on something.
As an aside, this was a copy of one I rented a long time ago and it wasn't the Criterion version. Annoyed at myself for getting an inferior version, I did some reading and found that the Criterion release of Breathless is actually illegal in Quebec because it's a French movie being sold under an English title. Come ot think of it, that may explain why it's so hard to find Godard's movies for sale here...
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