Cannes 2025: Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' is a Zany Tribute to Godard

Linklater you mad genius! The Austin, TX-based filmmaker is back at a second film festival this year with his other movie in 2025. Richard Linklater's Blue Moon premiered at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival earlier in the year, and his next film Nouvelle Vague just premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Nouvelle Vague is Linklater's very first film shot entirely in French - because it's a spunky tribute to the iconic French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who passed away in 2022 at 91 years old. Nouvelle Vague, which translates simply to New Wave in English, is about the French New Wave of the 1960s. Specifically about the making of Godard's first full-length film titled Breathless (or À bout de souffle in French). While making it they had no idea if it would be any good, but the film went on to debut at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and then influence cinema forever as the defining French New Wave film at the time. This is Linklater's meta tribute to Breathless by recreating the making of Godard's film with the exact same artsy B&W style as the original. // Continue Reading ›

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