Gauthier Toux Solo at Offbeat Jazz And Cinema Festival at Cine Lumiere Institut Français Du Royaume-uni

A screening of Nouvelle Vague classic A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) is preceded by live music by the French pianist Gauthier Toux (who is touring to support a new release on UK label NAIM) who will reinterpret themes from Martial Solal’s film score. One of the most emblematic films of the New Wave, Godard’s Breathless has the same fresh,spontaneous feel as it did fifty-nine years ago. A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy...

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A screening of Nouvelle Vague classic A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) is preceded by live music by the French pianist Gauthier Toux (who is touring to support a new release on UK label NAIM) who will reinterpret themes from Martial Solal’s film score. One of the most emblematic films of the New Wave, Godard’s Breathless has the same fresh,spontaneous feel as it did fifty-nine years ago. A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy.

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