{"id":133379,"date":"2025-05-17T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/richard-linklaters-nouvelle-vague-receives-standing-ovation-at-cannes\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T18:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T18:20:15","slug":"richard-linklaters-nouvelle-vague-receives-standing-ovation-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/richard-linklaters-nouvelle-vague-receives-standing-ovation-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Receives Standing Ovation at Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Love Letter to French Cinema: Richard Linklater\u2019s Nouvelle Vague at Cannes<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine an American **indie movie** more suitable for a **Cannes** red-carpet premiere than Richard Linklater\u2018s Nouvelle Vague<\/em>. The maverick director\u2019s **black-and-white** love letter to the **French New Wave** premiered to a rapturous response Saturday night inside Cannes\u2019 Palais des Festivals, drawing a **10-minute-plus** standing ovation from the black-tie crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cCinema is magic,\u201d Linklater said as the house lights came up inside the cinema and the applause finally began to dwindle.<\/p>\n

The standing ovation even got started before the lights came on as the crowd began clapping in unison for the love letter to **French cinema**.<\/p>\n

Going into the night, there was considerable anticipation surrounding Linklater\u2019s **23rd feature**. The film wasn\u2019t screened for critics in advance of the premiere, as the director was said to prefer that it be seen for the first time on the big screen at its **French premiere**. The film\u2019s official summary reads, simply: \u201cThis is the story of **Godard** making Breathless<\/em>, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shot on **film** in the **4:3 aspect ratio** and told entirely in **French**, Nouvelle Vague<\/em> stars **Guillaume Marbeck** as **Jean-Luc Godard**, **Zoey Deutch** as Godard\u2019s star **Jean Seberg**, and **Aubry Dullin** as **Jean-Paul Belmondo**. Linklater has said that his mission for the movie was \u201cto show the absolute love of cineastes.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Star-Studded Premiere<\/h2>\n

Speaking of those, arch-cineaste **Quentin Tarantino** turned up to support Linklater\u2019s tribute to Godard. The two directors came to prominence together in the **1990s** during the American indie film wave. Tarantino and Linklater shared a moment before the premiere screening, embracing inside the cinema before the lights went down, which drew hoots and cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n

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\nLinklater on set of \u2018Nouvelle Vague\u2019<\/span>
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Linklater’s Unique Approach<\/h2>\n

Although famously good-natured and avuncular, unlike his mercurial genius that is the movie\u2019s subject, Linklater is in many ways just the right **Austin dude** to take on the **French New Wave**\u2019s revolutionary spirit of cinematic invention. Across his **35-year career**, which began with the shoestring-budget comedy-drama Slacker<\/em> (1990), Linklater has continually dipped in and out of **convention**, testing the medium\u2019s formal boundaries. His filmography spans **generation-defining** coming-of-age comedies like Dazed and Confused<\/em> (1993), the *Before* trilogy \u2014 Before Sunrise<\/em> (1995), Before Sunset<\/em> (2004), and Before Midnight<\/em> (2013) \u2014 and School of Rock<\/em> (2003); innovative animated features like Waking Life<\/em> (2001) and A Scanner Darkly<\/em> (2006); crime comedies with existential overtones such as Bernie<\/em> (2011) and Hit Man<\/em> (2023); **period pieces** like Me and Orson Welles<\/em> (2008) and Blue Moon<\/em> (2024); the decade-spanning American masterpiece Boyhood<\/em> (2014), and more.<\/p>\n

Nouvelle Vague<\/em> now marks his first film shot entirely in **France**. The screenplay is from **Vince Palmo**, **Mich\u00e8le Halberstadt**, **Laetitia Masson**, and **Holly Gent**, while **David Chambille** handled the cinematography. Paris-based sales agent **Goodfellas** is shopping the project to international distributors in Cannes.<\/p>\n

The Legacy of Breathless<\/h2>\n

Godard\u2019s Breathless<\/em> (\u00c0 bout de souffle<\/em>, 1960), is one of the **great landmarks** of the French New Wave. The movie follows **Michel Poiccard** (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a small-time criminal on the run after killing a policeman, and his romantic entanglement with **Patricia Franchini** (Jean Seberg), an American journalism student in Paris. Loosely inspired by American film noir, the film famously blends genre tropes with **radical style**. It marked Godard\u2019s feature debut and catapulted Belmondo and Seberg to **international fame**. More than a crime film, it came to be seen as a manifesto of **cinematic rebellion**. The film-loving audience in the Cannes premiere Saturday night was probably cheering that legacy as well as Linklater\u2019s achievement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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