Review 768: Nouvelle Vague
I don't know what gave Richard Linklater the idea to make a film about Breathless ; it seemed like something that was so outside of his wheelhouse, but you know, it kinda works. Nouvelle Vague (which means "New Wave" in English) is The year is 1959, a group of film critics, Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck), Francois Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard) & Claude Chabrol (Antoine Besson) You have to admire a director Zoey Deutch (in her second collaboration with Linklater after 2016's Everybody Wants Some!!) is the only big name actress in this production Throughout the film, she is surrounded by a group of unknown French actors in the roles of several prominent figures of the French New Wave that filters out over the course of the film. Jean-Luc Goddard is not written to be a likeable character; in fact he's written to be quite a preten
