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‘Nouvelle Vauge’ 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
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). At the Cannes premiere he becomes more determined than ever to make his first feature, enlisting jaded producer Georges de Beauregard (a wonderful Bruno Dreyfursft) to put up the money , but this is going to be a film done like no other since Godard’s rules of no script only notes, no color, no scope, no sync sound so he can shout out directions, and dialogue he writes in a cafe each morning before the day’s shoot. 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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