"Breathless is a film very much about passion and life lived solely by the fuel of passion, which is very French. I like the pacing of it, and I like that the lead actress is an American speaking French. It was nice to hear a character speaking French who still has an American accent. Generally it’s an American actor trying to do a French accent as though they were a French person speaking English, which is ridiculous. So it was kind of nice to see and hear this terrible French accent, which is only because she’s not a native speaker. The remaster is stunning—it looks so good on Blu-ray. It looks almost like it’s a modern film."

"Jean Renoir’s exposé of French bourgeois hypocrisy—always a great subject!"

"Pagnol invents French dialogue. Theater of the people. Brutal and messy melodrama..."

"“She was so young; it’s so very French in its desperate and elegant melancholy.”"