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(Breathless location, Bonaventure Hotel)  

Breathless location: the futuristic hotel: Westin Bonaventuree Hotel, South Figueroa, downtown LA

BREATHLESS filming locations


CREDITS
BREATHLESS, 1983
dir: James McBride

Richard Gere
Valerie Kaprisky
Art Metrano

Brilliantly good-looking (with great LA locations) and bravely unlikeable remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s trash-culture landmark A Bout de Souffle, gaining oodles of cool credentials courtesy of Quentin Tarantino, who lists it as one of his faves.

The action is transferred from sixties mono Paris to eighties pastel California. Locations included the University of California, Los Angeles; Westwood and Venice Beach. The terrific murals, a feature of LA’s Venice area, are the ones near Windward Avenue and Speedway. The nightmarishly futuristic hotel is the Westin Bonaventure, 404 South Figueroa, downtown LA, which you'll recognise from This Is Spinal Tap and Strange Days among many other screen appearances.


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FILMING LOCATIONS FOR BREATHLESS
Los Angeles
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Los Angeles: Flights: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)


Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 South Figueroa Street, downtown (tel: 213.624.1000)
 
ASSOCIATED FILMS


See Jean-Luc Godard's original New Wave classic A Bout de Souffle, which was filmed on the streets of Paris.

 

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