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Seberg and Belmondo in Breathless, hiding away like the elephants

This image of Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo from Breathless is more than iconic: for me, when I first saw it in Paris,  it was the image of everything I wanted to be and do--she was an American girl and her name was Patricia! Michel (Belmondo) has sneaked into her hotel room/apartment to hide out from the flics, and though at first she's resentful, his charm and powers of persuasion win the day. She says she wants to "hide away like the elephants" do and they get under the covers....and I thought that is exactly how I feel now, the bed luring me back as the only real port in the Covid storm. If you haven't by some miracle seen Breathless, now is a great time to watch it, on Criterion.