Nouvelle Vague

• Directed by Richard Linklater
• 2025 | 106mins | France, United States |

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.

Richard Linklater’s chain-smoking, delirious love letter to French Cinema and Godard’s making his classic film Breathless. A great cast struts in stylish self-obsession and high art.