2025 · comedy · drama · history
Nouvelle Vague
Directed by Richard Linklater1h 46m2025
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.
Our read: Nouvelle Vague (2025) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · history entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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