Nouvelle Vague (2025)

A young film critic Jean Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) from Cahiers Du Cinema decides it's time to make his first feature film. His unconventional methods drive his producer (Bruno Dreyfurst) crazy. His leading man Jean Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dullin) goes with the flow but his leading lady Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch) is frustrated. Directed by Richard Linklater (BOYHOOD). The "behind the scenes" backstory of how Godard's revolutionary film BREATHLESS was made is a treat for cinephiles. Like BREATHLESS, it's shot in B&W in the 1.37 ratio and the recreation of 1959 Paris as well as the look and locations of BREATHLESS are amazing. Famous film people of the French "New Wave" and artists who inspired them pop up as minor characters like Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean Pierre Melville, Juliette Greco, Jean Cocteau and Roberto Rossellini among them. Talk about name dropping! More amusing than one would imagine, it's a loving recreation of an iconic piece of cinema.