BREATHLESS

An American remake of À Bout De Souffle? Why not? Jean-Luc Godard was playing with Hollywood noir, so why can’t Jim McBride play with Godard? In a cheeky reversal of the original’s iconic Belmondo/Seberg pairing, on-the-lam cop-killer Jesse (Richard Gere) struts through LA with French student Monica (Valérie Kaprisky). Their odyssey is sexy, stylish and strangely true to Godard’s maverick spirit. And superfan Quentin Tarantino practically built his career on McBride’s potent fusion of pop culture and pulp fiction. Simon Kinnear