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Sordid is really a mild word for its pile-up of gross indecencies… It is emphatically, unrestrainedly vicious, completely devoid of moral tone, concerned mainly with eroticism and the restless drives of a cruel young punk to get along.
Bosley Crowther, reviewing Breathless, as quoted in “An Ideal for Living” by Geoffrey O’Brien (Film Comment, Vol. 46, No. 3)