Nouvelle Vague
The spirit of cinematic revolution is alive and well in Richard Linklater’s affectionate and wildly entertaining passion project, which transports the viewer back to a creative landmark: the 1959 making of Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard.
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The spirit of cinematic revolution is alive and well in Richard Linklater’s (Last Flag Flying, NYFF55 Opening Night) affectionate and wildly entertaining passion project, which transports the viewer back to a creative landmark: the 1959 making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Played with uncanny Proustian precision by the extraordinary Guillaume Marbeck, Godard desires to make his own mark as a filmmaker, envious of the big-screen success of his fellow Cahiers du cinéma critics François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol. Working from—if only gesturing to—Truffaut’s noir-inspired script treatment, Godard embarks on his runaway production on the streets of Paris, determined to make a work of intellectual honesty and moral integrity, while fending off the frustrations of producer Georges de Beauregard (Bruno Dreyfürst), playfully sparring with star Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dullin), and ignoring the bemused protestations of leading lady Jean Seberg (a winsome Zoey Deutch). Shot on film in black-and-white and edited with a restless elegance that echoes the Nouvelle Vague ethos that Breathless all but created, Linklater’s film is a buoyant expression of the importance of artistic freedom and ingenuity from one of contemporary American cinema’s true independent souls. An NYFF63 Spotlight selection. A Netflix release.
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