Edition 2025
105'
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2025
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Drama, Comedy, Biography
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
French, English
Richard Linklater's well-researched hangout movie-meets-buddy comedy offers an irresistibly charming behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influential films ever made. Without ever indulging in intellectual posturing, Nouvelle Vague shows how Godard convinced a ragtag film crew to follow him into the grand revolution of 20th-century cinema. Expect to see a parade of French cinema legends, played by actors who bear an uncanny resemblance to their real-life counterparts.
In 1960, film history hit the reset button. A then 29-year-old Jean-Luc Godard - already casually quoting his idols - sparked a full-blown revolution with his fast, low-budget debut À bout de souffle (Breathless). Godard broke with every filmmaking convention of the time, jolted 20th-century cinema like a lightning bolt, and finally stepped out of the shadow of his Cahiers du Cinéma peers François Truffaut en Claude Chabrol. Plenty of inspiration, then, for American director Richard Linklater - the nostalgic mind behind Boyhood and the Before trilogy - to take a charming, light-hearted look at how Godard an his often dumbfounded crew pulled off this guerilla-style production. Newcomer Guillaume Marbeck is the spitting image of a young, rebellious Godard, and shines alongside Zoey Deutch's playful take on Jean Seberg. Don't expect a highbrow docudrama - this is witty hangout movie and buddy comedy, where a whole parade of legendary French film figures makes an appearance. Nouvelle Vague proves that cinephilia can be quite contagious.
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Credits
Directors
Richard Linklater
Cast
Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin
Scenario
Holly Gent, Laetitia Masson, Vincent Palmo Jr.
Director of Photography
David Chambille
Editors
Catherine Schwartz
Producers
Laurent Pétin, Michèle Pétin
Sales agent
Goodfellas
Production studios
Canal+, ARP Productions, Ciné+ OCS, CNC
Distributor
Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
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Dialogue
French, English
Countries of production
United States of America, France
Year
2025
Filmography
Richard Linklater
Woodshock (short, 1985), It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988), Slacker (1990), Dazed and Confused (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), SubUrbia (1996), The Newton Boys (1998), Waking Life (2001), Tape (2001), Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (short, 2003), School of Rock (2003), Before Sunset (2004), $5.15/Hr. (TV film, 2004), Bad News Bears (2005), Fast Food Nation (2006), A Scanner Darkly (2006), Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008), Me and Orson Welles (2008), Bernie (2011), Before Midnight (2013), Boyhood (2014), Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), Last Flag Flying (2017), Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019), Another Day at the Office (short, 2019), Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022), Hit Man (2023), Blue Moon (2025), Nouvelle Vague (2025)
Technical Specs
Format
DCP
