"Nouvelle Vague" homage to Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo's classic "Breathless"
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 French New Wave, Linklater employed a number of elements made famous during this movement, including voiceover, jump cuts, existential irony, and tracking shots. Nouvelle Vague stars Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch as Godard’s star Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Netflix recently acquired the film after it’s strong debut at the Cannes Film Festival.
“If you do it long enough, I always thought you can make one film about making films. This is mine,” said Linklater at the Cannes press conference for Nouvelle Vague.
Learn more about actress Jean Seberg in the the Emmy® Award-winning documentary "Jean Seberg: Actress, Activist, Icon" now available on Blu-ray from RMR Features. Over ten years in the making, the film was produced by award-winning filmmakers Garry McGee (McMarr Ltd.), and Kelly Rundle and Tammy Rundle (Fourth Wall Films).
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