Nouvelle Vague
7.4/10
Rating
106 min
Runtime
2025
Release Year
Richard Linklater
Director
Cast
Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson
Quick Synopsis
Jean-Luc Godard, a young writer for the film magazine Cahiers du cinéma, decides that making films is a more effective way to critique cinema than writing about it. He persuades producer Georges de Beauregard to finance a low-budget movie and collaborates with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut to develop a story about a couple involved in crime. Their project leads to the creation of Breathless, which becomes one of the pioneering films of the French New Wave movement.
Detailed Synopsis of Nouvelle Vague
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.
