A couple on the Champs-Élysées, his cigarette in his hand, she, short hair, laughs while listening to him.
Another photo shows them kissing.
Both in the radiant freshness of youth.
If these images mean nothing to you, it is because you have been cryogenized for half a century and have just reappeared in our world.
Otherwise, you know that Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg embody through these photos the mythical couple of the New Wave and the essence
of Breathless
.
These two scenes have never appeared in the film.
It was Raymond Cauchetier, then still photographer, who provoked them:
“The sequence of the meeting had just been shot by
Godard.
at the top of the Champs-Élysées by the cameraman hidden in a Post Office stroller.
But the curious were so numerous that I preferred to take the actors all the way down the avenue to a still deserted place, to reconstruct the scene, and to sum it up, ”
he wrote a few years ago.
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