Nouvelle Vague: On the red carpet with Richard Linklater at London Film Festival 2025

An ode to the French New Wave movement of cinema, Nouvelle Vague is director Richard Linklater’s second showing at this year’s London Film Festival. It stars Zoey Deutch as the iconic American actress, Jean Seberg, a role that was reserved for her three years into the production’s initial ideation 13 years ago. It follows Jean-Luc Godard and the making of his first feature-length film, Breathless, a revolutionary piece that helped forward the movement of French New Wave media. Shot in a 4:3 ratio and entirely in black and white to truly evoke the atmosphere of that era, this passion project has been more than a decade in the making, and it’s a stellar homage to a period in time that shaped the cinematic landscape people know of today.

The Upcoming caught up with Linklater to discuss what it was about the French New Wave movement, Godard and his making of Breathless that enticed him to direct this project. He discussed how young film is as a form of media, and marked Breathless’s creation as an almost halfway point between the first iteration of cinema and now. Linklater also spoke about the importance of history, looking back and discerning how it shapes culture today, but also the importance of personal passion when it comes to artistic pursuits.

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Nouvelle Vague does not have a release date yet.

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