In 2019, Alain Souchon looks back on some snapshots of his baby boomer adolescence – he was born in 1944 and, on leavingTo breathless, he was going to be sixteen years old. He remembers Belmondo’s death at the end of the film.
It’s not the only timeBreathless is evoked in popular music: Alex Beaupain, Elisa Point, The Divine Comedy, among others, were inspired by it for songs. We meet Jean-Luc Godard for better and for worse, like all great icons, in many songs. Here, for example, is an amusing collision of two Godards in the same year, 1984 – shortly after the film was released Name Carmen.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Alain Souchon, fifties soul2019
Bernard Lavilliers, Carmencita1984
Sheila, I am like you1984
Yves Simon, In Juliet’s Wonderland1973
Vincent Delarm, I think of you2008
Saez, Jojo2019
Jonathan Richman, She Doesn’t Laugh At My Jokes1991
Yuri, Good film2017
Anna Karina, my lucky line1965
Anna Karina, Mic and Mac1965
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