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Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, a cinematic homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the birth of the French New Wave, is officially arriving this awards season. After earning an 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes this year, the black-and-white period drama will debut in theaters on Oct. 31, before streaming on Netflix starting Nov. 14. Here’s everything to know about the upcoming film.

Who's In The Cast?

Guillaume Marbeck stars as Godard, capturing the auteur during the frenzied 23-day production of his debut film Breathless. Zoey Deutch plays American actress Jean Seberg, delivering a performance already being buzzed about for awards consideration. Aubry Dullin portrays Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of the key figures of the French New Wave. The cast is rounded out by portrayals of Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, prominent contemporaries in Godard’s creative orbit.

Who's Behind The Scenes?

Five-time Oscar nominated Linklater, directs his first French-language...

Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater’s loving homage to Jean Luc-Godard’s 1960 film Breathless and the French New Wave, which received a 10-minute standing ovation and rave reviews following its world premiere at May’s Cannes Film Festival, will be released in American theaters on Oct. 31 and play on big screens for two weeks before dropping on Netflix on Nov. 14, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

When Netflix acquired Nouvelle Vague’s U.S. rights shortly after Cannes, some reacted with surprise and dismay that a movie shot on film and about cinema would end up with a streamer. But the company is planning a robust theatrical release that will include not only screens in New York (where, appropriately enough, it owns the historic Paris Theater) and LA, but in all of the top 10 U.S. markets.

Additionally, THR can report that the largely French-language film will be pushed across all categories.

Exclusive: Canadian distributor Photon Films has picked up Richard Linklater’s Cannes hit Nouvelle Vague and the festival’s Un Certain Regard winner Pillion.

The former is the French-language dramedy that follows the production of Jean-Luc Godard’s classic film, Breathless. Starring are Guillaume Marbeck, the celebrated Parisian photographer making his feature debut as Godard, Zoey Deutch (The Politician) as Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dulin as Jean-Paul Belmondo.

The movie will be released during awards season. The deal was negotiated by Sardé Hardie and Mark Slone for Photon Films and Antoine Guilhem for Goodfellas. As we first revealed, Netflix has U.S. rights.

Writer-director Harry Lighton’s debut Pillion, based on the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones, stars Harry Melling (The Queen’s Gambit) as Colin, a timid man who meets a confident biker gang leader, Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), who initiates him into a submissive relationship, challenging Colin’s mundane...

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 director spared no details. He recreated the 1959 classic’s Parisian setting, lighthearted mood and three-way chemistry between the two leads and their director – played by Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Godard lookalikes: Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin and Guillaume Marbeck.

While speaking about the film at Biarritz’s Nouvelle Vague Festival where his latest film played on opening night this week, Linklater and “Nouvelle Vague” producer Michele Halberstadt said that everything seen in the film — which had a rapturous world premiere in competition at Cannes — happened in real life. New Wave film buff Linklater did extensive research alongside Halberstadt, who knew Godard well throughout her career in journalism. Halberstadt one point headed Premiere magazine in France before launching her production and distribution company Arp Selection...

“Nouvelle Vague” (‘New Wave’) is the new France-produced comedy feature, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Aubry Dullin as actor ‘Jean-Paul Belmondo’, Zoey Deutch as actress ‘Jean Seberg’ and Guillaume Marbeck as director ‘Jean-Luc Godard’, with wide theatrical distribution Tba:

“…the film captures the shooting of ‘Breathless’, directed by Goddard, noted as the first feature of the ‘Nouvelle Vague’ era of French cinema in 1959…”

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Paris-based sales company Goodfellas has moved quickly to capitalise on the Cannes launch of Richard Linklater’s French-language comedy-drama Nouvelle Vague, sealing a US$4 million domestic deal with Netflix and drawing a wave of interest from international distributors less than a week after the film’s 11-minute standing ovation on the Croisette.

The agreement, brokered by CAA Media Finance, is believed to set a record price for a French-language title in North America, surpassing previous festival benchmarks according to industry trackers monitoring Cannes transactions.

Goodfellas has simultaneously closed key European deals: Germany’s Plaion will handle theatrical release, while long-time partner Arp Sélection retains French distribution ahead of an 8 October rollout. The company’s official market slate lists the film alongside its other competition entries, underscoring its status as the banner title in a portfolio aimed at high-end arthouse buyers.

Running 105 minutes and shot in black-and-white Academy ratio, Nouvelle Vague...

Exclusive: Richard Linklater’s love letter to the New Wave Nouvelle Vague has sold to more than 20 theatrical distributors worldwide for Goodfellas following its buzzy Cannes premiere, as one of four French majority productions in Competition this year.

They join Paris-based distributor Arp Sélection which will release the film in cinemas in France on October 8 on 500 screens, having produced the film under the banner of Arp Production with Linklater’s Austin-based Detour Film.

The French-language production about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960s New Wave classic Breathless has sold out in Europe for Paris-based sales company Goodfellas.

It has unveiled deals to Benelux (Cherry Pickers), the UK & Ireland (Altitude), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Germany, (Plaion), Spain (Elastica Films), Greece (Cinobo), Italy (Lucky Red /Bim), Portugal (Alambique), Scandinavia (TriArt Film), Ex-Yugoslavia (McF Megacom), Romania (Independenta), Baltics (Scanorama) and Cis (Mjm Group).

In the rest of the world, it has been acquired for...

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Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague heads to Netflix

After receiving strong reviews out of the Cannes Film Festival, the French New Wave-inspired film has sold to Netflix. Chronicling the making of Jean-Luc Godard's seminal Breathless, Nouvelle Vague stars Guillaume Marbeck as the...

Netflix understands how to take overseas projects and turn them into greatness. In the streamer's latest move, an overseas movie involves an American director who made an homage to a classic French film. The mix should be wonderful.

The director is Richard Linklater, who you know from Boyhood and the Before Sunrise trilogy, among many other fantastic works. He recently had a film shown at the Cannes Film Festival called Nouvelle Vague, which is an ode to French New Wave films, and especially Breathless. The movie received an 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes.

Breathless was directed by the incredible Jean-Luc Godard and followed the story of a doomed love affair between an American and an overly idealistic Frenchman. Nouvelle Vague follows the making of that film, but is more about the filmmaking world in general. Many of the characters are based on famous actors.

Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague snatched up...

Richard Linklater’s latest film, Nouvelle Vague, has found a home, with Netflix purchasing the rights for $4 million. That deal, according to Deadline, is the highest-ever domestic plan for a French-language film. Ooh la la!

Nouvelle Vague is undoubtedly a love letter to cinema, as Richard Linklater chronicles the making of 1960’s Breathless, which wasn’t only Jean-Luc Godard’s debut film but also changed the landscape of international film through its innovative use of camerawork, sound and editing, most notably seen in its famed jump cuts.

To bring the production of Breathless (À bout de souffle) to life in Nouvelle Vague, Linklater recruited Guillaume Marbeck to play Goard, Zoey Deutch as lead Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as star Jean-Paul Belmondo. There, too, are a number of other iconic international figures featured in Nouvelle Vague, including cinematographer Raoul Cotard (Matthieu Penchinat), along with fellow French New Wave directors François Truffaut...

Richard Linklater's commitment to indie filmmaking has to be commended. The director behind major hits like 2023's Hit Man, A Scanner Darkly, and School of Rock is one of the defining indie filmmakers, notable for directing Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and many, many more. His next project, Nouvelle Vague, takes him back to his low-budget roots. But, the film's "indie" label has been put into question, as the film was recently acquired by the biggest streaming platform around: Netflix.

Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater's newest film, recently held its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and opened to strong reviews and reactions from critics. At the festival, the film also secured a distributor, but long-time fans of the director might be upset about the choice of studio. Netflix has purchased the distribution rights to Nouvelle Vague for a reported $4 million. The film won't be Linklater's first collaboration with Netflix,...

Netflix has struck a deal worth about $4 million for U.S. rights to Richard Linklater’s French-language “Nouvelle Vague,” landing the picture hours after its Cannes competition debut and setting a domestic price record for a foreign-language film second only to last year’s “Emilia Pérez.”

The black-and-white feature, shot in the 4:3 ratio, re-creates the frenetic 1959 shoot of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” with Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Linklater told reporters in Cannes, “If you do it long enough, you should make one film about making films—this is mine,” underscoring a career-long admiration for French New Wave aesthetics.

Festival buzz was immediate: the premiere drew an 11-minute standing ovation inside the Grand Théâtre Lumière and placed third on ScreenDaily’s critics’ jury grid with a 2.7 average.

Although “Nouvelle Vague” left Cannes empty-handed, writers at Awards Radar noted it...

Following its Cannes debut, Linklater’s French language Nouvelle Vague has been purchased by Netflix. More here.

“If you do it long enough, I always thought you can make one film about making films. This is mine,” the filmmaker said at the Cannes press conference for Nouvelle Vague, his new film which charts the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. It does so in black and white and entirely in the French language.

The film debuted at Cannes and Netflix has now opted to pick up the US rights for the movie, at a cost of $4m, a record outlay for a French language film in that territory.

While Deadline's report doesn’t confirm that the UK rights are also part of that deal, that has also been reported elsewhere although we wouldn’t take that as official confirmation just yet. Linklater’s last film, Hit Man was also picked...

Acclaimed filmmaker Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vaguefinds a home at Netflix.

Per Variety, Linklater's latest feature film, Nouvelle Vague, has officially been picked up by Netflix. Although this comes as a promising update for fans of the filmmaker's work, it also means that there is no guarantee of any theatrical release for the film apart from the scant two weeks necessary for it to qualify for major industry award nominations.

A retelling of the filming and production of Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 masterpiece Breathless (which itself is considered a pinnacle of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave film movement), Nouvelle Vague stars Guillaume Marbeck as the legendary filmmaker. Alongside Marbeck's Godard are Zoey Deutch as the legendary Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film was directed by Linklater from a screenplay penned by Holly Gent, Vincent Palmo Jr., Laetita Masson, and Michèle Pétin. During its debut at Cannes,...

Netflix has acquired Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, a black-and-white love letter to the French New Wave, specifically to the 1960 classic Breathless.

The sale comes after the film’s strong debut at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a 10-minute-plus standing ovation from the audience. “If you do it long enough, I always thought you can make one film about making films. This is mine,” the filmmaker said at the Cannes press conference for Nouvelle Vague.

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 and stars Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch as Godard’s star Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Netflix has beaten out the competition for Richard Linklater’s Cannes darling “Nouvelle Vague” after the film debuted in competition at the festival, Variety has confirmed.

Because the film was purchased by the streaming giant, a theatrical window is not guaranteed outside of the mandatory two weeks it needs in cinemas for awards consideration. This fact comes with a tinge of irony, considering that “Nouvelle Vague” is an homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless,” which is widely considered one of the most important achievements in all of cinema.

The film received a six-and-a-half-minute standing ovation at its Cannes debut, visibly moving a crowd that included “Pulp Fiction” director Quentin Tarantino.

“It means so much for us to be here tonight. Over a year ago we were filming right here,” Linklater said at the premiere. “And we all said: ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could end up here showing our movie.

Exclusive: Netflix has won out in a tug of war for Richard Linklater’s Breathless homage Nouvelle Vague after its Cannes Film Festival debut in the competition.

We understand the deal has closed for a hefty $4 million, a record domestic outlay for a French-language movie.

This is an interesting one. Breathless is viewed as a cinema classic and Nouvelle Vague a love letter to cinema. Could there be longer theatrical play either in the U.S. or overseas before it hits Netflix? At least domestically, we hear it’s likely to just be the usual awards-qualifying two-week window.

Nouvelle Vague launched to warm words at the Cannes Film Festival two weekends ago. In the right hands, the talk has been that the film could figure in the awards race.

Netflix is coming off an eventful awards season with Spanish-language movie Emilia Pérez, which scored 13 Oscar nominations and two wins. There...

When it comes to getting indie films made, Richard Linklater lives by the golden rule of “fake it until you make it.”

The 5x Oscar nominee recently opened up about the struggles of financing as an indie filmmaker, explaining that they have to “be a cheap hustler” and “have some charm” in order to convince financiers to invest in their work.

“If no one wants to support you, that just means you are not ready yet,” said Linklater at IndieWire‘s Future of Filmmaking Summit at Cannes. “Maybe you don’t have the confidence or something’s not exuding from you that needs to be for people to believe in you, and that’s usually you believing in yourself. You can’t fake that. You have to earn that through your own experience, your own confidence, your own hard work and dedication.”

Linklater’s comments come after his latest indie...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival concludes today with the Closing Ceremony and presentation of the coveted award, the Palme d’Or, which was awarded to Jafar Panahi for the film It Was Just an Accident.

The Jury, chaired by director Juliette Binoche, was tasked with awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 21 films in the Competition. The jury included Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong.

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The Croisette has been a buzz so far with glamorous parties and red carpet fashion statements. Director Amélie Bonnin’s debut feature, Partir Un Jour, opened the festival with other highlight premieres from this year’s slate including Paul Mescal in The History of Sound; Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest; A Private Life starring Jody Foster...

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Tarik Saleh follows The Nile Hilton Incident and Cairo Conspiracy with a darkly funny thriller about a famous actor forced to play Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in a biopic. Reteaming with star Fares Fares, who headlined the first two movies, Saleh tackles the dirty dealings between the regime and the film industry, showing how artists are co-opted — or rather coerced — into making propaganda in a country leaving them few other options. — Jordan Mintzer

Highest 2 Lowest

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Spike Lee reunites with Denzel Washington in this dazzlingly entertaining spin on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 kidnapping procedural, High and Low. The plot has been transposed to an environment Lee knows well — New York City, lushly captured — allowing the director to make the film his own, with wit, high style and kinetic energy to burn. The cast is top-to-toe excellent, with special honors to Washington and, in key roles,...

“Nouvelle Vague” (‘New Wave’) is the new France-produced comedy feature, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Aubry Dullin as actor ‘Jean-Paul Belmondo’, Zoey Deutch as actress ‘Jean Seberg’ and Guillaume Marbeck as director ‘Jean-Luc Godard’, with theatrical distribution Tba:

“…the film captures the shooting of ‘Breathless’, directed by Goddard, noted as the first feature of the ‘Nouvelle Vague’ era of French cinema in 1959…”

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Multiple domestic buyers are in the mix to buy Richard Linklater’s Breathless homage, Nouvelle Vague, which launched to warm words at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend.

We expect a deal to get done in the next 48 hours and it should be at the higher end for a U.S. acquisition of a French-language movie. In the right hands, there’s talk the film could figure in the awards race.

The film reconstructs the story behind Godard’s cinema classic. French actor Guillaume Marbeck portrays Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch plays Jean Seberg and newcomer Aubry Dullin portrays Jean Paul Belmondo. Characters in the movie include cinema legends Godard, Jean Cocteau, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, Eric Rohmer, Agnes Varda and Jacques Rivette.

Following the Competition title’s world premiere at Cannes on Saturday, the audience at the Palais gave the movie an 11-minute ovation. Our critic Pete Hammond...

The 77th Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 9 with two world premieres: Oliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, and director Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, which reunites him with The Worst Person in the World actress Renate Reinsve.

Guests at the premiere for The History of Sound included Teri Hatcher, Taraji P. Henson, Aja Naomi King, John C. Reilly, Julian Assange, Michelle Rodriguez, Edward Enninful, Naomi Campbell, Jenny Slate

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Mescal stars as Lionel, a gifted singer from rural Kentucky, who leaves his family farm in 1917 to attend the Boston Music Conservatory. There, he meets David (O’Connor), a charming music student soon drafted into the war. In 1920, the two spend the winter in Maine, passionately collecting folk songs. As Lionel builds a successful life in Europe, he...

Deadline photo studio hosted talent at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival, as cast members of Cannes premiering films stopped by, including Spike Lee from Highest 2 Lowest; Paul Mescal and Oliver Hermanus from The History of Sound; Michael Angelo, Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona, Kyle Marvin for Splitsville; Richard Linklater, Zoey Deutch, Guillaume Marbeck for New Wave; Frank Dillane from Urchin; Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson for Die My Love; Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Kristen Stewart from Chronology of Water, and many more.

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The Deadline Studio at Cannes is sponsored by Scad,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 8 with the world premieres of A Private Life, starring Jodie Foster, and Eleanor The Great, the directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson, starring June Squibb in the titular role as part of the Un Certain Regard lineup. Other premieres today include It Was Just an Accident, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, and Fuori.

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Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who, after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell. The cast also includes Erin Kellyman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht and Rita Zohar.

The film A Private Life, starring Jodie Foster as Lilian Steiner,...

Every so often a film comes along destined to restore jaded critics’ faith in the joy of cinema.

Director Richard Linklater does just that with this monochrome chronicling of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and its impact on generations of movie brats. Audiences should also be able to indulge in the same sense of pleasure.

The material could not be in better hands. Linklater with his first film in French has managed to assemble an amazing lookalike cast of Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Aubry Dullin as star Jean-Paul Belmondo and Zoey Deutch as the ingenue Jean Seberg among others. They’re all dead ringers by the time Linklater puts them under his gaze.

Linklater’s sheer audacity in tackling such a revered figure as Godard, known as “the great disruptor,” shines through and knows no bounds. It becomes a legend-spotting parade as everyone from Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 7 with the world premiere of Spike Lee’s Highest to Lowest, starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky; Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville starring Kyle Marvin, Adria Arjona, Dakota Johnson, and Alpha from director Julia Ducournau.

Guests who attended the premieres included Rihanna, Luke Wilson, Edward Norton, Jason Momoa, Wes Anderson, and many more.

Highest to Lowest follows a titan of the music industry (Washington), a man whose legendary hearing has earned him the moniker “the best ears in the business,” as he becomes the target of a high-stakes ransom plot. This perilous situation forces him into a life-or-death moral quandary.

Marking the fifth collaboration between Washington and Lee, the film reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s gripping crime thriller High and Low, transplanting its tense narrative to the gritty reality of contemporary New York City.

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Nouvelle Vague team line-up in Cannes, from left: Richard Linklater, Aubry Dullin (who plays Jean-Paul Belmondo); Zoey Deutch (who plays Breathless’s leading lady Jean Seberg) and Guillaume Marbeck (who incarnates Jean-Luc Godard) Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival

If any director is living his best life at this year’s 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival it has to be Richard Linklater, long time champion of indy filmmaking. He has just taken the audacious step of making his first film in French, Nouvelle Vague, which chronicles the creation of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, an influence on generations of filmmakers including Linklater himself.

“I thought they might hate an American director who had the effrontery to take this on and that it would never be shown at least in France. I know how much Godard means to the French. I admit it was crazy idea, but then film people are crazy.

Zoey Deutch stuns at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival!

The 30-year-old actress appeared at the red carpet for the premiere of her film Nouvelle Vague on Friday (May 16) in Cannes, France. There, she looked classy while wearing an elegant white embroidered corset gown and dark red lipstick.

Directed by Richard Linklater, Nouvelle Vague tells the story of French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard creating his 1960 new-wave film Breathless. Guillaume Marbeck stars as Jean-Luc, while Zoey portrays French actress Jean Seberg, who starred in Breathless. Meanwhile, Aubry Dullin is playing Jean-Paul Belmondo. Nouvelle Vague reportedly received an over 10-minute standing ovation at the festival.

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Fyi: Zoey is wearing Chanel.

Browse through the gallery to see the photos of Zoey Deutch at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Nouvelle Vague…...

Shot on black-and-white film with the same Cameflex model used by Jean-Luc Godard for Breathless––the film it portrays and embodies the making of––Nouvelle Vague is not merely an imitation of Godard. It’s a theft of Godard for a creation all its own, which is a strange thing to say about a movie that looks and feels so much like the one that inspired it. Richard Linklater’s newest, despite suggesting no form of his past work, rings much like Linklater.

The ode to both his mentor and own slacker style is a 50/50 fusion of the French New Wave master and his American counterpart, two directors inextricably linked through filmmaking philosophy, the latter of whom incepted and heavily shepherded the former’s career (and is still doing so 40 years later). Here, Linklater employs French New Wave style and technique to invoke Breathless itself while immersing us in the...

“If you do it long enough, I always thought you can make one film about making films. This is mine,” said Richard Linklater at the Cannes press conference for his latest film Nouvelle Vague, a love letter to French New Wave.

Nouvelle Vague tells the story of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Shot on film in the 4:3 aspect ratio and told entirely in French, it stars Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch as Godard’s star Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo. Breathless, considered on of seminal film of the Frenc New Wave, 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.

“Ten years ago, when we were thinking about this movie, I was thinking they’ll hate that an American director did it,...

A new hangout movie from the man who knows them like the back of his hand, Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” and pays tribute to the French New Wave in a way that recalls his previous films like “Slacker” and the “Before” series. Premiering Saturday in Cannes, it marked the culmination of a years-long journey that the Austin filmmaker said he always dreamed would end with them here.

“It’s exhilarating for this film, certainly, to be here,” Linklater said alongside stars Guillaume Marbeck and Zoey Deutch at a press conference on Sunday. “All roads lead to Cannes if you’re lucky. We got lucky.”

As it was a French production, Linklater was asked about the recent social media posts by President Donald Trump where he said there would be tariffs on films shooting on “foreign lands” without offering any specifics. The director,...

Filmmaker Richard Linklater believes Trump’sproposed tariffs on films made outside the US are“not gonna happen”.

The director was speaking at a Cannes Film Festival press conference for his French-language feature Nouvelle Vague, about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’sBreathless.

“That man changes his mind 50 times,” Linklater joked about President Trump. “Film is the number one export industry of the US.”

US actor Zoey Deutch, who plays Jean Seberg, added: “It would be nice to make more movies in Los Angeles and Hollywood, that has the biggest history of studios and the cultures and the crews. It would be so beautiful.

Richard Linklater sounded off on Trump’s tariff threat on foreign-made films during the Cannes press conference for his new film “Nouvelle Vague,” saying: “That’s not going to happen right?”

Linklater shot “Nouvelle Vague,” which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless,” in France. When asked if he had any thoughts on Trump’s recent threat to impose a 100% tax on films made outside of the U.S., the director doubted the viability of the proposal.

“The tariff thing, that’s not going to happen right? That guy changes his mind like 50 times in one day,” Linklater said. “It’s the one export industry in the U.S., it would be kind of dumb to… Whatever, we don’t have to talk about that.”

On if it has become more expensive to make films in the U.S., Linklater said: “I think the true indie film, the no-budget film,...

In Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater returns to the monochrome crucible of cinema’s youth, fashioning a 2024 sight-and-sound echo of Paris in 1959. Shot in French, framed in an Academy-ratio canvas, and rendered in high-contrast black-and-white, the film dramatizes Jean-Luc Godard’s birth-pangs as he conceives Breathless. Here, every gutter of light is an invitation to the unexpected, and each scratch of jazz on the soundtrack feels like a pulse in the night.

Linklater sets the scene on rain-slicked cobblestones and in cafés where cigarette smoke coils like a whispered confession. His camera glides past ragged film magazines and cluttered editing rooms, reminding us that creation can be brutal, thrilling, and absurd.

Through whispered arguments and bright-eyed determination, the story of Godard’s 20-day shoot unfolds as both homage and meditation on artistic risk. An affectionate portrait of youthful revolt, this opening gesture throbs with restless energy—an invitation to wonder whether...

This is Cannes Film Festival’s third invite (second time competition) to veteran American indie filmmaker Richard Linklater. Oddly his first visit was almost two decades back and he came packing a pair of films – Fast Food Nation and A Scanner Darkly (Un Certain Regard selection). Flash-forward to another double year where Blue Moon premiered earlier this year at the Berlinale (read ★★★★ review) and now we have Nouvelle Vague. How will his narrative structure, naturalistic dialogue, and exploration of human connection be applied here?

The eighth film in competition stars Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard and Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg — it follows the shooting of Godard’s Breathless in 1960.…...

Following its Cannes premiere, Richard Linklater‘s black-and-white tribute to Jean-Luc Godard has released a sneak peek.

In the first teaser for Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), Guillaume Marbeck portrays the French-Swiss filmmaker as he directs his first feature, 1960’s Breathless, in Paris.

Featuring the same warm black-and-white ’60s film aesthetic of the seminal source film, Nouvelle Vague is “told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless,” directed by Linklater from a script by Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson and Holly Gent.

Along with Marbeck as Godard, the cast includes Zoey Deutch as American actress Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as her French co-star Jean Paul-Belmondo.

The teaser features shots from Nouvelle Vague, narrated by a woman in French. “A pretty boy. A pretty girl. Paris 1959. A gym. A director. A camera. Film. A producer. An ingénue. Stars. Money,” she says, leading up to the title card.

Richard Linklater’s Cannes Competition title Nouvelle Vague had its world premiere the Palais this evening and was welcomed with a 11-minute ovation.

Quentin Tarantino was at tonight’s screening as well and helped lead the long-lasting applause. It was the second time he’d watched the film in about eight hours, having also caught a special screening late Saturday morning.

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An homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 classic Breathless, the French-language film reconstructs the story behind the film starring Jean Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. French actor Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard, Zoey Deutch is Seberg, and newcomer Aubry Dullin portrays Belmondo.

Five-time Oscar nominee Linklater was last in the Cannes Competition with 2006’s Fast Food Nation and played Un Certain Regard with A Scanner Darkly that same year.

It’s hard to imagine an American indie movie more suitable for a Cannes red-carpet premiere than Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague. The maverick director’s black-and-white love letter to the French New Wave premiered to a rapturous response Saturday night inside Cannes’ Palais des Festivals, drawing a 10-minute-plus standing ovation from the black-tie crowd.

“Cinema is magic,” Linklater said as the house lights came up inside the cinema and the applause finally began to dwindle.

The standing ovation even got started before the lights came on as the crowd began clapping in unison for Linklater’s moving tribute to French cinema.

Going into the night, there was considerable anticipation surrounding Linklater’s 23rd feature. The film wasn’t screened for critics in advance of the premiere, as the director was said to prefer that it be seen for the first time on the big screen at its French unveiling.

Richard Linklater’s French New Wave tribute “Nouvelle Vague” was always going to find a perfect home at Cannes, and such is the case following the period drama’s rapturous world premiere in competition at the 2025 festival. The film earned a rousing six-and-half-minute standing ovation as the cast hugged each other and leading lady Zoey Deutch blew kisses to the audience.

The “Nouvelle Vague” premiere was a spirited affair from the start. Linklater and cast member Zoey Deutch were spotted singing along and dancing on the red carpet as they ascended the iconic stairs at the Palais. Before the film started, Linklater hugged and chatted briefly with Quentin Tarantino. The “Pulp Fiction” director, who has premiered several movies at Cannes, enthusiastically clapped for Linklater during the standing ovation. Tarantino was visibly moved by the film.

“It means so much for us to be here tonight. Over a year ago we were filming right here,...

In 1983, Jim McBride attempted an English-language remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 cinema landmark, Breathless with Richard Gere. It broke one of Godard’s cardinal rules: It was in color. Although not as terrible an idea as Gus Van Sant’s disastrous shot-by-shot 1998 color remake of Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho — which, like Godard’s forever-influential movie the year before, also broke all the rules of its genre — it is dismissed today with the original still finding new life with young audiences each generation, as France’s New Wave also continues to do.

With the truly wonderful Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), premiering today in Competition at Cannes (where else?), Richard Linklater smartly has not attempted a remake of Breathless but rather a certain regard and respect for the wildly creative cinematic period Godard and his contemporaries achieved with the French New Wave. A cinema revolutionary in spirit and deed himself — just watch his...

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 sunglasses. He wears them on the set and in the office, in restaurants and at the movies.

The omnipresent round dark shades serve several functions. First and foremost, they’re authentic — Godard, in the late ’50s and early ’60s, really did wear his sunglasses all the time, almost as a form of branding. They were instrumental in lending him his mystique: that of an intellectual artist who was cool, who knew how to keep his distance, who had things on his mind he was too hip to share. Yet the sunglasses also accomplish something else. In a biopic, no actor looks exactly like the person they’re playing. But the unknown French actor Guillaume Marbeck, with a bushy widow’s peak and a chiseled poker face,...

In 1959, a film critic picked up a camera, threw out the rule book, and forged a new kind of cinema on the streets of Paris. Three decades later, a young slacker pulled off a similar feat in Austin. And on Saturday, an American master world premiered a moving and richly entertaining tribute to the unbridled creativity that propelled both himself and his spiritual mentor to Cannes.

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 than just a valentine to the French New Wave; the film is also a stealth showcase for a filmmaker rarely heralded for his technical sophistication. Indeed, without ever calling too much attention to its more than 300 VFX-shots, Linklater’s latest plays as a hang-out film from a world gone by – a ramble across 1950s Paris that ushers viewers into the nearest café,...

The official synopsis for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague describes it as “the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless.”

It’s a catchy pitch but also a bit deceiving. Godard’s 1960 film broke all sorts of narrative and stylistic conventions, writing its own rules about what a movie could do and paving the way for modern cinema as we know it. Linklater’s charming and well-researched homage is much more traditional: Told in a linear fashion, shot with a sizeable crew, featuring actors who look and act like the famous people they’re playing, relying on tons of VFX shots to recreate Paris at the time, it’s a far cry from the style of Godard. And yet it does an impressive job capturing the spirit of the man at work, highlighting what it took — and often didn’t take...

From Jean Seberg’s sideswept pixie cut to Jean-Paul Belmondo’s aviators, Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” has become more fashionable in today’s cultural imagination for its iconic looks and images than for how the jump-cut-pioneering renegade feature collapsed cinematic hierarchies as we knew them in 1960. That makes one of the greatest films of all time, and the standard bearer of the French New Wave, ripe for discovery for a younger generation — and fresher still for the older ones well familiar with it.

If the best way to criticize a movie, as Cahiers du Cinéma critic Godard once said, is to make one, then director Richard Linklater’s answer to making a tribute to “Breathless” might instead be to not quite criticize but certainly to subvert the tropes of movies about moviemaking. His black-and-white “Nouvelle Vague,” itself a meticulous recreation of a movie made in 1959 with all the celluloid, Academy-ratio crackle and pop,...

Richard Linklater — paragon of American cinema — has decided to go French. In addition to unveiling his Lorenz Hart chamber piece “Blue Moon” at this year’s Berlinale, Linklater went intercontinental by premiering his ode to the French New Wave, “Nouvelle Vague,” in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Watch a teaser for the film below.

“Nouvelle Vague” is set during the 1959 Paris-set shoot of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut feature, “Breathless.” Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and American actress Jean Seberg, “Breathless” follows an aimless criminal and his unwitting romantic interest as they fall in love, while at the same time being pursued by the law. Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch fill the roles of Belmondo and Seberg, while Guillaume Marbeck takes on the maestro himself, Godard. Other luminaries of the French New Wave featured in the film include François Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard), Suzanne Schiffman (Jodie Ruth-Forest), Claude Chabrol (Antoine Besson), Agnès Varda...

"He films me with a camera hidden in a mail cart." Arp Sélection has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, his next new feature film premiering this year. Earlier in 2025 at the Berlin Film Festival, Richard Linklater also premiered his first 2025 film titled Blue Moon with Ethan Hawke. After making Hit Man, he also went over to France and filmed Nouvelle Vague, a B&w film shot entirely in French about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's iconic 1960 movie Breathless – it's Linklater's very first film in French. And of course it's premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival now – the premiere is tonight. This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the same style & spirit in which Godard made Breathless 65 years ago. In order to keep with the spirit of the French New Wave, the young French actors are all newcomers. For example, while he...

After releasing two films last year with Hit Man and the rather-overlooked God Save Texas: Hometown Prison, the ever-prolific Richard Linklater returns in 2025 with another pairing. Earlier this year he premiered Blue Moon at Berlinale. Ahead of that film’s October release, he’s at Cannes to premiere Nouvelle Vague, his tribute to the French New Wave and chronicle of the making of Breathless––all directed in the style of Jean-Luc Godard’s landmark debut. A first trailer has arrived for the feature (still seeking U.S. distribution) ahead of the premiere.

The cast includes Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Matthieu Penchinat as Raoul Coutard, Adrien Rouyard as François Truffaut, Antoine Besson as Claude Chabrol, Roxane Rivière as Agnès Varda, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier as Jean Cocteau, Côme Thieulin as Éric Rohmer, Laurent Mothe as Roberto Rossellini, Jonas Marmy as Jacques Rivette,...

A new teaser trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), which is premiering in the Cannes Film Festival competition on Saturday evening, shows off some of the cinematic style audiences can expect from the homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 New Wave classic A Bout de Souffle (Breathless).

The black-and-white movie, shot in the 4:3 aspect ratio, stars Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch as Godard’s star Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo.

“This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit of Godard making Breathless,” reads a synopsis for the film. Austin impresario Linklater shot his love letter to the French New Wave on location in Paris, explaining that his mission in making the film was “to show the absolute love of cineastes.”

The screenplay is from Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson, and Holly Gent, while David Chambille was in charge of cinematography.

Buyers are finally wise to the fact that Cannes is driving the Oscar race and even the specialized box office. Everyone wants to find the next “Anora,” “The Substance,” “Emilia Perez,” or “Anatomy of a Fall.” And more buyers like Mubi, Metrograph, Sideshow, and other upstarts have emerged to take on the likes of Neon and A24, who come to Cannes armed with several titles already set to debut.

Below, we’ve identified 13 movies looking for homes that could be the next awards breakout, including new films from Lynne Ramsay and Richard Linklater and the debuts of Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson.

All titles presented alphabetically.

“The Chronology of Water” (Un Certain Regard)

Director: Kristen Stewart

Stars: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Tom Sturridge

Buzz: Even if it’s in a sidebar for a first-time director, Kristen Stewart’s debut should be a hot ticket with a lot of...