Nouvelle Vague

Comedy Drama History French

This is the story of Godard making ”Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.

Cast:	Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Alix Bénézech, Paolo Luka Noé, Tom Novembre, Jade Phan-Gia, Nicolas Dozol, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier, Bruno Dreyfürst, Adrien Rouyard
Director:	Richard Linklater
Writer:	Holly Gent, Laetitia Masson, Vincent Palmo Jr., Michèle Pétin
Editor:	Catherine Schwartz
Camera:	David Chambille

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A warm homage to the pioneers of French New Wave

Shubhra Gupta | The Indian Express

Fri, May 23 2025

Linklater’s film will make those who adore Breathless nostalgic. Set in 1969, it is black and white, but it’s not the luscious-lambent period black-and-white which could have distanced us; the matter-of-fact palette makes it all very life-like.

A film about cinephiles for cinephiles is one way to describe ‘Nouvelle Vague’ (New Wave), Richard Linklater’s love letter to movies. You could also say that it is about the making of ‘Breathless’, which it is. But it’s truly, gloriously more. It’s about being young and alive, broke and audacious, lucking into friends who make you come alive, having each other’s backs — all while changing the world. In the 50s, a bunch of French film critics were busy discovering the joys of ‘middlebrow Hollywood commercial’ cinema, which was treated with disdain by a high-minded earlier generation. Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, Chaude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were among those who contributed to Cahiers du Cinema, a journal which published these rebels-with-a-righteous-cause.