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Will Nouvelle Vague, the film that brings Seberg and Belmondo back to life be shown at Cannes?
Thought to be shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater’s upcoming film, revisits the genesis of the shooting of Breathless (À Bout de souffle) by Jean-Luc Godard. A tribute to late 1950s French cinema, balancing romance with neo-retro aesthetics.
by La rédaction.
Nouvelle Vague, a Richard Linklater homage to cinema, headed to the Cannes Film Festival?
Rumors are swirling that it could premiere at the next Cannes Film Festival… If so, Nouvelle Vague would mark Richard Linklater’s grand return to the Croisette, nearly a decade after the global success of Boyhood. The Texan filmmaker ventures into an unexpected territory: France in the 1960s, a time of feverish cinephile fervor. More than a tribute, the film is a barely veiled love letter to the Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Agnès Varda generation—and to the very idea of cinema as an art of dialogue and disruption.
Already dubbed “the Midnight in Paris Woody Allen never quite managed to make” by a Hollywood Reporter critic, Nouvelle Vague also charms through its quietly contemporary outlook. While the references abound, they never overpower the narrative—they enrich it, offering cinephile audiences a string of affectionate winks.
On the set of Godard’s Breathless
Having delved into childhood (Boyhood), teenage passion (Before Trilogy), and the American Dream (Apollo 10½), Linklater delivers with Nouvelle Vague a film of transmission—elegant, tender, learned without pretension. One that may well sweep Cannes 2025 off its feet, especially when you discover its synopsis: the making-of story behind Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless—the 1960 classic starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg—reimagined in the style and spirit of its original director. The cast features Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, and Aubry Dullin.
With over two hundred films to his name, Jean-Luc Godard remains a defining figure in the birth of a new cinematic genre: the French New Wave of the 1960s, with its location shoots and young characters breaking free from the constraints of a tightly-laced society.
Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague has yet to receive an official release date.
