Jean-Luc Godard's amazing first feature, Breathless, is perhaps the most popular of the French New Wave films. It contains nearly every New Wave trope, including jump cuts, hand-held camera-work, location settings, and improvisational acting, as well as a narrative homage to American gangster movies. Sensual Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Michel, a small-time crook who kills a cop and goes on the lam; Jean Seberg plays Patricia, Michel's American girlfriend, in a story originally written by Francois Truffaut . Breathless is a modern romance, perfectly capturing the urban frenzy of Paris and the glamorous amorality and affectations of postwar youth. In director Jean-Luc Godard's own words, it's "the sort of film where anything goes."