Released in 1960, director Jean-Luc Godard's film Breathless showed us the life of a French grifter (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his American girlfriend (Jean Seberg). The movie was an early French New Wave film and pioneered the use of the jump cut—film edited so that scenes are broken into two parts, with a chunk of time eliminated. This technique pushed …
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