****SPOILERS*** Re-make of the 1959 French Film Nior classic "A Bout De Soufflé" the US version "Breathless" has actor Richard Gere as the on the run "Checkered Pants Man", it's the only pair he has in the film, Jesse Lujack who's on the run from the police after accidentally killing a cop who stopped him for speeding on a Las Vegas highway. Jesse ends up hooking, no pun intended, up with this cute French chick Monica Poiccard, Valerie Kaprisky, while being on the lamb. It's Monica that he had a one night strand with the night before after meeting her in a Veges casino. Jesse, a master car thief, now plans to steal a hopped up car and drive with Monica to Mexico where, that's what he thinks, the long arm of the law can't get to him. Did the guy ever hear of extradition treaties between countries?
Monica a French exchange student at UCLA has no idea that her new found boyfriend is wanted by the police for murder and goes along with him just for the sheer thrill of it. By the time that she does find out what it's or Jesse is all about she's torn between turning him, who by then she's madly in love with, into the police or joining him as a fugitive from justice on his mad dash towards the Mexcan/US border. It's a terrible decision on Monica's part but it's Jesse who ends up making it for her at the end of the film.
French actress Valerie Kaprisky was toted to be the next Bridget Bardot and this was to be her breakout movie but you can see that she was way over her head in here. Not in the acting department but in being paired with her co-star Richard Gere. Gere didn't seem to have a script to work with in the film and most of his dialog seemed to be ad libbed. This had Gere doing what seemed like, in his unintelligent mumbling,a Marlon Brando imitation which was hard to figure out what he was saying throughout most of the movie.
Miss. Kaprisky, as Monica, who did speak with a sexy French accent in understandable sentences seemed to have trouble interacting with Gere not quite knowing what he was talking about. But as for the sex scenes between the two they were both first class as well as X-rated! It took almost forever for Monica to find out what her boyfriend did, killed a cop, and when she did she started to have second thoughts in her checking out of the country with him. Even though she was made pregnant by Jesse in what had the be the fastest human pregnancy, about 24 hours, in all of recorded medical history!
It turned out that "Breathless" not only bombed out at the box office but turned out to be the both first and last movie that Valerie Kaprisky ever starred in going back to her native France and continuing her film career there. And as it turned out no amount of money or, in co-staring in films with her, top Hollywood leading men would make her ever change her mind.
Monica a French exchange student at UCLA has no idea that her new found boyfriend is wanted by the police for murder and goes along with him just for the sheer thrill of it. By the time that she does find out what it's or Jesse is all about she's torn between turning him, who by then she's madly in love with, into the police or joining him as a fugitive from justice on his mad dash towards the Mexcan/US border. It's a terrible decision on Monica's part but it's Jesse who ends up making it for her at the end of the film.
French actress Valerie Kaprisky was toted to be the next Bridget Bardot and this was to be her breakout movie but you can see that she was way over her head in here. Not in the acting department but in being paired with her co-star Richard Gere. Gere didn't seem to have a script to work with in the film and most of his dialog seemed to be ad libbed. This had Gere doing what seemed like, in his unintelligent mumbling,a Marlon Brando imitation which was hard to figure out what he was saying throughout most of the movie.
Miss. Kaprisky, as Monica, who did speak with a sexy French accent in understandable sentences seemed to have trouble interacting with Gere not quite knowing what he was talking about. But as for the sex scenes between the two they were both first class as well as X-rated! It took almost forever for Monica to find out what her boyfriend did, killed a cop, and when she did she started to have second thoughts in her checking out of the country with him. Even though she was made pregnant by Jesse in what had the be the fastest human pregnancy, about 24 hours, in all of recorded medical history!
It turned out that "Breathless" not only bombed out at the box office but turned out to be the both first and last movie that Valerie Kaprisky ever starred in going back to her native France and continuing her film career there. And as it turned out no amount of money or, in co-staring in films with her, top Hollywood leading men would make her ever change her mind.