Netflix has acquired Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, a black-and-white love letter to the French New Wave, specifically to the 1960 classic Breathless.
The sale comes after the film’s strong debut at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a 10-minute-plus standing ovation from the audience. “If you do it long enough, I always thought you can make one film about making films. This is mine,” the filmmaker said at the Cannes press conference for Nouvelle Vague.
Nouvelle Vague tells the story of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, which follows Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a small-time criminal on the run after killing a policeman, and his romantic entanglement with Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg), an American journalism student in Paris. Linklater’s French-language movie is shot on film in the 4:3 aspect ratio and stars Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch as Godard’s star Jean Seberg and Aubry
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