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Who played the petty criminal in Breathless?
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard.
The petty criminal in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless was played by the French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo.1
His performance as the disaffected, amoral street punk became a landmark role that helped define the antiheroic spirit of the French New Wave cinema movement.1