Breathless

Michel Poiccard, a young criminal who idolises American movie gangsters, steals a car in Marseille and, on the road to Paris, shoots and kills a motorcycle policeman. In Paris he hides out while trying to collect money he is owed and seeks out Patricia Franchini, an American student and aspiring journalist who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the Champs-Élysées. Unsure whether to protect him, Patricia finally tells the police where he is, and Michel is shot by the police and dies in the street. Godard's first feature, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, drew over two million viewers in France and won Godard the Prix Jean Vigo.