The film includes a couple of in-jokes as well : the young woman selling Cahiers du Cin�ma on the street ( Godard had written for the magazine ) , and Michel 's occasional alias of L�szl� Kov�cs , the name of Belmondo 's character in Chabrol 's 1959 film Web of Passion .
In Breathless , Laszlo Kovacs is a Hungarian-American cinematographer reknowned for the film Five Easy Pieces