Trivia

Release date: March 16, 1960

The movie was shot in Paris and Marseille.

The film was shot on a very low budget ($60,000 (€45,000 / £30,000). Director Godard din’t have enough money to buy a metro ticket. Godard: “We couldn’t afford to work in a studio, so our movies were not something we had planned in advance”
--Source: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard, Page 0

A continuity girl is responsible for maintaining the film's internal continuity. Director Godard disliked the function completely. He called it un metiér de con (a job for a complete nerd). Godard could advance the action without any regard to narrative logic.
--Source: Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy, Page 121

Michel’s constant lip-rubbing is a direct homage to Humphrey Bogart. Belmondo: “All I needed was a tic. [] Then I remembered Humphrey Bogart’s gesture of rubbing a finger across his lip. I was ready to go”
--Source: Film Makers Speak: Voices of Film Experience, Page 28

The film was made on a budget of $60,000 (€45,000 / £30,000)
--Source: Breathless, Page 189