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Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Is Going to Netflix. Is Jean-Luc Godard Turning Over in His Grave?
Richard Linklater has made the ultimate love letter to cinema. What does it mean that we have to watch it on the small screen?
I began to ponder, a bit more deeply, what Jean-Luc Godard would actually make of the fact that this incandescent homage to his groundbreaking first feature, and to the living spirit of the French New Wave, would be watched almost exclusively on television. It could wind up as France’s Academy Awards submission for best international film, and that’s likely to be the Oscar nomination it will be most eagerly gunning for, along with Zoey Deutch’s radiant performance as Jean Seberg for best actress. Yet with all that considered, I’m haunted by the practical and aesthetic question of why Richard Linklater and his backers — for it’s not as if these decisions are ultimately made by the director — decided that Netflix would be the best home for “Nouvelle Vague.” With the visibility of advertising radically splintered and diminished in the digital age, the best way to sell a movie today is to turn it into an Event.
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