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  • Nouvelle Vague, one of the big hits of Cannes, just sold to Netflix

    The Cannes Film Festival and Netflix have not always had a smooth relationship, but Richard Linklater’s latest film is headed to the streamer following its Cannes premiere. Nouvelle Vague, which is largely in French, chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s film Breathless, one of the most important films ever made and a hallmark of the French New Wave.

    It’s an ironic twist for a movie about a foundational moment in the history of cinema, in part because we don’t know whether the film will get a theatrical release other than the mandatory two-week window required for awards consideration.

    “It means so much for us to be here tonight. Over a year ago we were filming right here,” Linklater said at the premiere, per Variety. “And we all said: ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could end up here showing our movie. It would be crazy to be here.’ And here we are! Cinema is magic. It meant so much to us to try and recreate the time and place. It means so much in film history, and it meant so much to each cast member, every crew member. Everybody worked so hard to try and get it right and recreate this moment. And thank you for this moment.”

    Netflix has never shied away from acquiring titles from big directors, even if it means that those movies don’t necessarily get the theatrical releases their directors might want. Nouvelle Vague will hit Netflix this year, but whether it arrives in theaters for any extended amount of time remains unclear.

  • The first trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague promises to leave you breathless

    Following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the first trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague has now been released. The film’s title means New Wave in English, and it follows director Jean Luc-Godard as he directs his first feature film, Breathless. That film, which is often considered the beginning of the French New Wave, had an enormous impact on the history of movies more generally.

    Guillaume Marbeck plays the film’s director, and Zoey Deutch stars as American actress Jean Seberg with Aubry Dullin as her French co-star Jean Paul-Belmondo. The teaser suggests that the film is shot in the same black-and-white style as the original Breathless, and features footage from the film along with French narration that describes what it is. “A pretty boy. A pretty girl. Paris 1959. A gym. A director. A camera. Film. A producer. An ingénue. Stars. Money. An American star. An American car,” the female narrator says.

    This is not the first time that Linklater has gone back into the history of film to forage material for his own work. His 2008 film Me and Orson Welles had a similar premise, and followed a young man who gets a small role in the famous director’s 1937 stage production of Julius Caesar.

    Nouvelle Vague reportedly got an 11-minute standing ovation following its Cannes premiere. While those ovations don’t always strictly correlate with the quality of a given movie, you’d rather have a long ovation than a short one. We won’t know for sure how good the movie actually is until it hits theaters in October 8.