this week, new york's film forum will be playing a restored print of jean-luc godard's breathless.
jean seberg plays patricia, first seen wandering the champs-élsyées, selling copies of the new york herald tribune. there, patricia revists a romance with a handsome ne'er-do-well. he, a small-time gangster, and she, a free-spirited american student, are briefly, beautifully suspended in the space of patricia's apartment. but this is the movies and when the police come a-knocking, things go awry. love or hate patricia's choices, she still stirs admiration for her swagger and cool.
this begs the question: what lessons can a couple of americans in paris glean from patricia?
striped shirts, fedoras, and dark eyeliner are timeless.
keep your trysts with gangsters short and sweet.
and never underestimate chance meetings. 
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