In “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s ingenious and enchanting docudrama about the making of “Breathless,” the 29-year-old Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) never takes off his ...

Linklater chose this name for his new comedy-drama because it's a movie about the French New Wave. Specifically, it's the ...

Godard, in his prickly meditative high-mindedness, spent years dabbling in video (in many ways a small-screen medium), and he might not have even approved of “Nouvelle Vague.” ...

The black-and-white period drama will debut in theaters on Oct. 31 before streaming on Netflix starting Nov. 14.

By Jordan Mintzer May 17, 2025 10:45am Nouvelle Vague'Jean Louis Fernandez The official synopsis for Richard Linklater ’s Nouvelle Vague describes it as “the story of Godard making Breathless ...

When Richard Linklater set off to direct “ Nouvelle Vague,” a black-and-white tribute to Jean-Luc Godard that charts the making of his debut film “Breathless,” the Oscar-nominated American ...

Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague,' a love letter to Jean-Luc Godard’s cult 1960 movie 'Breathless,' is eligible to represent France at the Oscars.

Croll wrote: “A labor of love and a product of considerable craft, Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ — which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless’ — is more ...

Speaking of those, arch-cineaste Quentin Tarantino turned up to support Linklater’s tribute to Godard. The two directors came to prominence together in the 1990s during the American indie film wave.

Credit: AP/Joel C Ryan In “Nouvelle Vague," Godard is surrounded by doubts — Seberg is notably unsure of the project — but he stubbornly sticks to his instance on spontaneity.

Watching "Nouvelle Vague," we don’t have to squint a bit to pretend that this is Jean-Luc Godard. It seems, rather, as if Godard has sprung to life before us. And that uncanny quality extends to ...

Godard, in his prickly meditative high-mindedness, spent years dabbling in video (in many ways a small-screen medium), and he might not have even approved of “Nouvelle Vague.” ...