WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

hmoika I have Amazon to thank for suggesting this film. I'm a romantic type of guy, and had ordered "Summer of '42" because I remembered seeing it in the theater on its first release. Well, Amazon suggested "Breezy" and......how could I resist?Where do I begin? This film just warmed my heart, as I sat here on Christmas afternoon with some champagne (okay, so the champagne warmed me too). So much has been said by the others reviewing this, so I don't have much more to add. Everything about it......William Holden, Kay Lenz, Marj Dusay, Roger C. Carmel....all of the lesser names too; the script holds things together, keeps things moving. Clint Eastwood directs with sensitivity.I do agree with the reviewer who said this was Kay Lenz's film. She is simply wonderful. However, it's easy to overlook William Holden's subdued performance. It's so hard to play an old codger stuck in his ways, and NOT to over-do it. His work was sublime. Also, it was so good to see Marj Dusay in this film. I can always rely on her.Only one thing disappoints: that such a loving story would probably not be produced today, in fear of offending millions of uptight people, and having the studio slapped with law suits.I've now ordered a second DVD copy of this film. I need to know that I'll be able to watch it each Christmas, in the years I have left to me.

Reno Rangan This is one of the earlier directional venture for Clint Eastwood. Probably not famous among his fans as his other flicks, but I totally loved it. I did not know it was his film till I saw, though he did not star in it, because the story needed an older actor than he was at that time. To me this film looked like a sweet poem, one of the rare romance theme, and most probably for the open minded people. Now this entered into my all time favourite list. So now you know how much I liked it, but I want to write more about it...It was a wonderful opening, I mean very simple, but you will remember forever the Breezy's introduction, step by step her trademarks like her attire; a hat and an old jacket, guitar that never used and the way she's living her life on the daily basis. We never know why she chose that life, but her kindness really reaches our heart. She's not just like her kind of people, I mean Americans call them hippy, but very soon the film reveals her emotional side when she finds a dead dog on the road side. So she runs away from a man she just met leaving her things behind in the car, but again, they meet in an unexpected circumstance like a fate brought them together. Their relationship as well gets more intentional by the days passing by. But the unavoidable differences between them and the society that talks behind them forces them apart. The remaining tale is to disclose whether they remain true to their hearts or the reality takes over.Don't misunderstand what you read in synopsis, this is not a sexual exploration or drugs and alcohol related thematic product. This is a cute romance film between an older man and an older teenage girl. So it is good for the grown-up audience and maybe matured teens, particularly not for the people who are culturally, religiously attached to. I don't think so, I would have liked it if I saw it ten years ago. Maybe the age factor played a role here, I'm a different person now, but I'm glad I saw it at the right time of my life. Like there's a saying, better late than never, anyway, I was not even born when it came out."Nobody matures. They just grow tired."Not just Clint Eastwood's direction, but the writing was top class. Everybody who worked for the film delivered, but still I can't understand how it went unnoticed all these years. Both the lead actors were extraordinary. Great, an unusual chemistry, especially William Holden was made for the character he had played in this. And for Kay Lenz, it will be her best film, particularly from those I've seen. She also nominated for the Golden Globe for her role in this, but I feel she should have won it. The musics and songs were good with the beautiful cinematography. You will never know how this film ends so fast, that kind of addictive it is that makes you forget the time.The most of the film focused on the two main characters and they are completely different from one another which was neatly briefed on the screen for us. It took enough time to set the tone right, particularly the old man's, but Breezy was very easy and everybody who watches this film would surely fall in love with her. Eastwood did not make many romance films, but from those this would definitely remain on the top. He said he liked this one very much, it is his one of the favourite among his directional features. I would have not minded if he had played the lead role with make-up to change the look, but I'm very happy with the existing casting. It opened with the character Breezy, but soon the narration shifts to an old man's perspective. Slightly an emotional tale, but in a romantic way. There were many touching and memorable lines. When I like a film, I would watch it again in a short gap and I did for this. But the result was same, I liked it even more on my second viewing. Forget the respond it got when it got released, but those who watched it in the recent time praising it a lot. Definitely it's going to set a cult status once a good number of people saw it, definitely it should be. For now it is like another 'Melody', so I strongly suggest you to watch it and spread the words. I hope you realise I'm not wrong.9/10

severine rubis I watched recently this movie on the net because i saw it was a movie from Clint Eastwood so it gave me the envy to watch it.At the beginning you can see a pretty young girl called "Breezy "which means careless and free like the wind and she hitchhikes and has a ride with a perverted man only interested by sex..she fortunately escapes and runs and eventually gets into the car of a middle aged man,William holden who is 30 years her senior and reluctantly consents to take her for a ride which will be very long..Actually everything in the movie is made to make us believe in a love story but it isn't.This story has nothing of a love story.It is the lust and sexual attraction of a 50 years old man for a teenager who could be his daughter because they are completely opposite. Mr holden is tired but he is mature and caretaker whereas Breezy is young and very demanding and sometimes irritating. I cannot believe in this love between two people that everything separate,their age,their background and education.Breezy is the symbol of the lost and stoned young girl product of the hippie years who needs sex and new experiments but the script is non consistent and the music is typically 70's as well.I disliked this movie as you can see because it is a lust movie and i 'm not certain that this love will last.Clint Eastwood started as a producer back then but he made better movies since.

briarmor Some SpoilersA gentle film that really can make you forget for an hour the real world. It is not a dream or a fairy tale, but a well presented story, directed and acted with strenght and heart. I bought some DVD from years 1968 to 1975; unfortunately the Breezy one - I saw the film on TV maybe 25 years ago but always appreciated Eastwood works a lot - has only my native language subtitles and not the English one, so I saw it a few times to get the English dialogue better. Now I saw more clearly some little aspects of the story thanks to the multiple views . Breezy (Lenz) is a young girl who has no money, no real home and nothing except her guitar and positive attitude towards life. She meets by chance Frank (Holden), a 50 something divorced and sometimes angry man who is still in good shape, good looking, has a (beautiful) home, a work and a life. But has really Frank so many things ? He beds occasional lady friends, but no string, no commitments...Betty, one of the ladies, tells him she will marry and Frank is very surprised, because he realise that he gives nothing to them. He gives nothing to nobody. He is afraid and suspicious, especially of Breezy...who maybe wants money, food, a refuge. Breezy appears in his life each day for a week, for a reason or another; she makes him speak, she discusses with him, lead him to the ocean ...Frank becomes more accustomed to her and her ways, his defenses start falling down, piece by piece. It's well acted film, so the little moments are the most poignant...the kiss on the shore is unexpected and Frank can't believe it at first, then smiles, and he appears immediately younger and more alive. The fulcre of the central part is the moment Frank tells Breezy in the bathroom" you don't have to go away": his tone is sweet, soft, a little shy, too. He cannot do the first move, he lets Breezy start their fist night together because he wants to be sure she really wants him. Frank knows too well he is older (in my family, an uncle is 25 yrs older than his second wife, my husband is 4 younger than me, life is bizarre); the "morning after" when playing with their dog in the park he introduces the problem, but Brezy has a marvelous answer about the ageing and the absence of love. Somebody wrote the script is too perfect, too well constructed, but this is the quality of the film. The dialogs are always excellent. And the silences, the looks, are very intense. Breezy is not a vagabond, nor a ignorant girl... she comes from a not so poor background (the way she prepared the table for the dinner left uneaten, the refuse of drugs) so she had simply embraced a lifestyle that during the 70ies lots of young people tried to share..it were revolutionary years, and the establishment was not so ready to accept it. In fact Frank's friends comes from a upper middle class group who is very close and conservative, women do not work (all have the same pearls, it seems), no children around (strange, OK Frank having a teen daughter would have made his affair with Breezy more dirty, but there is a sense of sterility of bodies and minds... no ideas of birth control, does Eastwood suggest a baby in the coming year?), man fantasize about chasing young girls, but when Frank really does it they become envious. Frank and Breezy could hide in their love nest on the hills, but this will kill their flame very soon, they do not share sex only (the scene during the second night, when they disrobe in front of each other, never loosing eye contact, is a strong moment, they take joy and pleasure in the presence of the other, not only in the mere coupling), but since the beginning they shared their stories.... so they go out at dinner, at the movies, knowing well the society will see and judge them, and fears arise. Fear to be happy again, that's the real point of the whole film, Frank is too afraid or upset by what people think of him and so he does not talk a lot, he does not debate with friend Bob about his story, although he wants tell him, twice, there is something new and special in his life. Frank had declared Breezy his strong feelings for her but he pushes Breezy away in a bout of pure fear and feels suddenly the loss, the fireplace is full of flames which does not heat his soul, the beach is empty without her. Luckily for him, Betty 's car accident makes Frank reflect about his situation in a different way. If he had the nerve to start a relationship with Breezy, he can have the nerve to go on with it. And thankfully he tries