Only known script of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless to be auctioned online

About 70 pages of director’s handwritten notes for the New Wave classic were found after more than 60 years

The only known script for Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal New Wave film Breathless (À Bout de Souffle) will be auctioned later this year after coming to light for the first time in more than 60 years.

About 70 pages of Godard’s handwritten notes and synopses of some of the most famous scenes, including the movie’s dramatic opening, were discovered in the estate of the celebrated producer Georges de Beauregard.

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