Nouvelle Vague – Cinephile’s reverie about French New Wave and iconic Jean-Luc Godard

review 2025

“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”

- Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard’s quip sounds doubly ironic in 2025, when the American director Richard Linklater reimagines a French New Wave conceptual peak. Nouvelle Vague captures the hectic shooting of Breathless in the summer of 1959 as a time-travelling affectionate reverie.