French film dealing with boy given egg dish but no starter (1,4,2,7)

'french film' is the definition.
'a bout de souffle' can be an answer for 'film' (I've seen this before). I'm not certain of the 'french' bit.

'dealing with boy given egg dish but no starter' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'boy' could be 'bo' and 'bo' is present in the answer.
'egg' could be 'o' (an 'o' resembles an egg) and 'o' is present in the answer.
'starter' could be 'l' (as in a learner driver with L-plates on their car) and 'l' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?