"Nouvelle Vague" homage to Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo's classic "Breathless"
Aubry Dullin (Jean-Paul Belmondo) & Zoey Deutch (Jean Seberg) in Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague. Director Richard Linklater ’s Nouvelle Vague is considered a black-and-white love letter to the French New Wave and specifically to filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 classic Breathless. The film recently premiered at the Festival de Cannes where the audience gave it a ten-minute standing ovation. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in "Breathless" (1960). Nouvelle Vague tells the story of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless , which follows Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a small-time criminal on the run after killing a policeman, and his romantic entanglement with Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg), an American journalism student in Paris. Linklater’s French-language movie is shot on film in the 4:3 aspect ratio that matches the framing largely used up until the 1950s and ’60s. In keeping with the traditions of the...
