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‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Splendid Love Letter To French New Wave And Godard Will Make You Fall In Love With Movies All Over Again – Cannes Film Festival
A review of Richard Linklater's love letter to the French New Wave and the making of Godard's 'Breathless' in the style of that influential movie
Although not as terrible an idea as Gus Van Sant’s disastrous shot-by-shot 1998 color remake of Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho — which, like Godard’s forever-influential movie the year before, also broke all the rules of its genre — it is dismissed today with the original still finding new life with young audiences each generation, as France’s New Wave also continues to do. Godard (a pitch-perfect Guillaume Marbeck), however, feels he is running behind, especially jealous of Truffaut, whose seminal The 400 Blows is getting a Cannes Film Festival premiere, and he has yet to make a feature (shorts don’t count as cinema in his book). Weaved in and out are other soon-to-be famous directors like Truffaut (an uncanny Adrien Rouyard), Chabrol (Antoine Besson), Jean-Pierre Melville (Tom Novembre) who gives tips when Godard visits his set, and on and on including a wonderful scene where Italian Roberto Rosselini arrives as guest speaker to a room full of eager “New Wave” hopefuls who fill the place with enthusiasm for this “godfather” of Nouvelle Vague.
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