Nouvelle Vague (2025)

IMDb plot summary: The behind the scenes of the filming of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960), a landmark of the French New Wave film movement.

Directed by Richard Linklater. Stars Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, and Aubry Dullin.

Richard Linklater made two movies this year about real-life people who were masters of their craft. One was Blue Moon and one was this, about Jean-Luc Godard making his film Breathless. One thing to note as going into this is that I absolutely hate Godard as a filmmaker. I've seen maybe four of his films and find his work extremely irritating and pretentious, and this film certainly did nothing to convince me of anything otherwise. It was also extremely unhelpful to watch this back-to-back with Day or Night because I could not keep the two of them straight most of the time. The character interactions are engaging because Linklater is excellent at working with character dialogue, but I just couldn't care about the story being told. Blue Moon was incredible, this one kept left me a little cold.

🎥 Nouvelle Vague (2025)

📊 Ranked #2443/4244 on my Flickchart

🎯 Flickscore™: 47

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