Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague

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  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
  • Release Date: 2025-10-08
  • Runtime: 106 minutes
  • : 7.379
  • Production Company: ARP Sélection
  • Production Country: France, United States of America
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7.379/10
7.379
From 161 Ratings

Description

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

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  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    Aspiring director Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) is fed up playing second fiddle to the likes of Truffaut and Chabrol so manages to convince producer Georges de Beauregard (Bruno Dreyfürst) to give him his first shot as a director. Somewhat reluctantly, “Beau-Beau” agrees to give him twenty days and a minuscule budget to make his own drama. That in itself was quite brave for Godard has no cast, now crew and more importantly, no story. Firstly, he has to assemble his stars so approaches young boxer Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dullin) and the already successful Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutsch). Next, well perhaps Chabrol and Truffaut might collaborate on the screenplay? Pierre Rissient (Benjamin Clery) gets the thankless job of assisting, but nowhere near as thankless as that of the poor continuity woman who is constantly beating her head against his wall of fluid creativity. Finally, wartime photographer Coutard (Matthieu Penchinat) is drafted in to try to capture the fragments of genius that drop, often well disguised, from their master’s erratically conceptual approach to film-making. Once this scene is set, this continues as a genuinely funny study of just how his shoestring film “Breathless” (1960) was made. His flaky approach to his work causes plenty of entertaining consternation with “Beau-Beau” who thinks he is just wasting his money and with his cast who haven’t really got a clue as to what they are doing, or supposed to be doing or what “À bout de souffle” is actually going to be about until their very last scenes. As an observation of the eclectic nature of movie-making, this is an enjoyably charismatic review of French cinema at it’s most flamboyant and innovative, and Marbeck leads a strong cast who imbue their characterisations with something amiably eccentric as their three weeks together quite literally fell into place. I suspect there is the odd piece of cinematic licence incorporated here, but it all adds to an enjoyable mêlée of styles and approaches and looks great when filmed from within a mobile post box.

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