What is Days of Heaven / Breathless about?

Double Feature: DAYS OF HEAVEN, 1978, Paramount, 95 min. Dir. Terrence Malick. Impoverished Chicago couple Richard Gere and Brooke Adams migrate to the Texas Panhandle and masquerade as brother and sister to find farm work. When their terminally ill boss (Sam Shepard) proposes to Adams, the couple see an eventual way out of their poverty if Adams accepts. But after the marriage, Shepard seemingly recovers. With Linda Manz. BREATHLESS, 1983, MGM/Park Circus, 97 min. After killing a cop, reckless drifter Jesse (Richard Gere) goes on the run, stringing French architecture student Monica (Valerie Kaprisky) along with him in this surreal reimagining of Jean-Luc Godard’s classic A BOUT DE SOUFFLE.

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What is Days of Heaven / Breathless about?: Double Feature: DAYS OF HEAVEN, 1978, Paramount, 95 min. Dir. Terrence Malick. Impoverished Chicago couple Richard Gere and Brooke Adams migrate to the Texas Panhandle and masquerade as brother and sister to find farm work. When their terminally ill boss (Sam Shepard) proposes to Adams, the couple see an eventual way out of their poverty if Adams accepts. But after the marriage, Shepard seemingly recovers. With Linda Manz.

BREATHLESS, 1983, MGM/Park Circus, 97 min. After killing a cop, reckless drifter Jesse (Richard Gere) goes on the run, stringing French architecture student Monica (Valerie Kaprisky) along with him in this surreal reimagining of Jean-Luc Godard’s classic A BOUT DE SOUFFLE.