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As Richard Linklater basked in a rapturous ovation following the Cannes premiere of “Nouvelle Vague,” his look at Jean-Luc Godard and a movement in French cinema that changed the course of film history, it was impossible not to be reminded of the indie revolution he had played a vital role in three decades ago. It helped, of course, that the biggest rebel in that group of backlot iconoclasts, Quentin Tarantino, was standing just in front of him, leading the cheering.

“I’ve known Tarantino, like for 30 years or whatever. He’s one of my oldest film buddies, so to have him there was cool,” Linklater said the afternoon after “Nouvelle Vague” took Cannes by storm, earning some of the festival’s best reviews.

The film follows Godard as he bluffs his way through the making of “Breathless,” the crime classic that gave the New Wave an irresistible dash of cool...

London’s Raindance Film Festival will kick off its 33rd edition with the world premiere of Christopher M. Anthony’s boxing drama “Heavyweight,” starring Nicholas Pinnock, Jason Isaacs, and Jordan Bolger.

The festival will close with the international premiere of Camilla Guttner’s art school drama “The Academy,” featuring Maja Bons as a student navigating the ruthless terrain of the art world.

“Raindance is always one to punch above its weight, so it’s appropriate that the festival’s 33rd edition should open with the world premiere of a British debut feature about a wildcard boxer,” said Raindance founder Elliot Grove.

The festival, running June 18-27 at Vue Piccadilly, marks a significant comeback with 70 narrative and documentary features — a 90% increase from last year and the first time since 2019 the festival will present so many films.

International competition highlights include “Dream!”, a Christmas-set musical following a young girl’s magical journey...

Linklater you mad genius! The Austin, TX-based filmmaker is back at a second film festival this year with his other movie in 2025. Richard Linklater's Blue Moon premiered at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival earlier in the year, and his next film Nouvelle Vague just premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Nouvelle Vague is Linklater's very first film shot entirely in French - because it's a spunky tribute to the iconic French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who passed away in 2022 at 91 years old. Nouvelle Vague, which translates simply to New Wave in English, is about the French New Wave of the 1960s. Specifically about the making of Godard's first full-length film titled Breathless (or À bout de souffle in French). While making it they had no idea if it would be any good, but the film went on to debut at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and then influence cinema forever as...

Deadline photo studio hosted talent at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival, as cast members of Cannes premiering films stopped by, including Claes Bang from The Great Arch; Piper Perabo, Patrick Hivon and Connor Jessup from Peak Everything; Aubry Dullin, Richard Linklater, Zoey Deutch, Guillaume Marbeck for New Wave; Frank Dillane from Urchin; Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson for Die My Love; Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Kristen Stewart from Chronology of Water, and many more.

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Zoey Deutch stuns at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival!

The 30-year-old actress appeared at the red carpet for the premiere of her film Nouvelle Vague on Friday (May 16) in Cannes, France. There, she looked classy while wearing an elegant white embroidered corset gown and dark red lipstick.

Directed by Richard Linklater, Nouvelle Vague tells the story of French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard creating his 1960 new-wave film Breathless. Guillaume Marbeck stars as Jean-Luc, while Zoey portrays French actress Jean Seberg, who starred in Breathless. Meanwhile, Aubry Dullin is playing Jean-Paul Belmondo. Nouvelle Vague reportedly received an over 10-minute standing ovation at the festival.

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Fyi: Zoey is wearing Chanel.

Browse through the gallery to see the photos of Zoey Deutch at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Nouvelle Vague…...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin serving as the opening-night pic.

This year’s lineup includes major Hollywood premieres including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme starring Benicio del Toro and Michael Cera, Richard Linklater’s Paris-shot Breathless homage Nouvelle Vague, Jochim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Titane Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau’s Alpha to name a few.

They are joined by new films from stalwart auteurs including horrormeister Ari Aster’s buzzy A24 feature Eddington, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s In Simple Accident and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has landed in Un Certain Regard with her first directorial effort, Eleanor the Great.

Related: Standing Ovations At Cannes: How We Clock Those Claps, Which Movie Holds The Record and Why The Industry Loves To Hate The Ritual

Croisette regulars Kirill Serebrennikov, Raoul Peck...

The 78th Cannes Film Festival moves into its sixth day with a diverse slate of world premieres, including Hlynur Pálmason’s The Love that Remains, Thierry Klifa’s The Richest Women in the World, the latest from Lav Diaz, Magellan, and Kawamura Genki’s Exit 8.

Wes Anderson makes his fourth appearance at the Croisette to present the world premiere of The Phoenician Scheme, starring a stellar ensemble including Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johansson, and many others, at the Palais des Festivals on May 18th.

Anderson was joined by the stars of the film, including Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Benicio del Toro, Rupert Friend, Mia Threapleton, Jeffrey Wright, Benedict Cumberbatch, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antonia Desplat and Bill Murra,y who all walked the red carpet at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, Sunday, May 18.

Related: ‘Eddington’ Cannes Film Festival Premiere Photos: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone,...

The Cannes Film Festival is nearing the end of its first week and with it, we got a buzzy new Jennifer Lawrence/Robert Pattinson drama and a Richard Linklater-directed ode to French cinema.

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison Hit the Red Carpet

“Die, My Love,” the long-awaited new film from Lynne Ramsay, premiered Saturday and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison were on hand to welcome it to the world.

The stars, who had each anchored their own beloved YA franchise long ago, attended the premiere alongside their director (this is the Scottish director’s first feature since 2017’s brilliant “You Were Never Really Here”) with Sissy Spacek, Mariska Hargitay and someone dressed as a turkey – or maybe it was a condor? It’s a little unclear.

Cannes, France – May 17: A condor attends the “Die My Love” red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais...

“The offscreen is more evocative”, says a Jean-Luc Godard lookalike in “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s Palme d’Or contender at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It is an astonishing inclusion in a film that is, ultimately, nothing more than a painstakingly detailed recreation of the making of Godard’s debut feature “Breathless” (1960) — a painfully literal demystification of the offscreen of the influential filmmaking movement that gives Linklater’s film its title.

Continue reading ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Dull Recreation Of The ‘Breathless’ Shoot Is An Astonishing Misunderstanding Of What Made Jean-Luc Godard Great [Cannes] at The Playlist.

Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho is no stranger to Cannes, having debuted two previous films in Competition beginning with Aquarius in 2016 starring Sonia Braga, so effective as a woman determined not to lose her condo to a demolition, and then grabbing the Jury Prize in 2019 for the surreal western Bacurau (again with Braga), in which a whole village seemingly is disappeared from satellite maps and must fight for its existence. Both of those movies deal thematically with people threatened with losing their way of life, being displaced.

Now his third film in Competition and biggest production yet, The Secret Agent, also might fit into that theme as it centers on a man coming back to a small city in order to get closer to his young son after losing his wife to pneumonia. What he discovers in the film set in...

Shot on black-and-white film with the same Cameflex model used by Jean-Luc Godard for Breathless––the film it portrays and embodies the making of––Nouvelle Vague is not merely an imitation of Godard. It’s a theft of Godard for a creation all its own, which is a strange thing to say about a movie that looks and feels so much like the one that inspired it. Richard Linklater’s newest, despite suggesting no form of his past work, rings much like Linklater.

The ode to both his mentor and own slacker style is a 50/50 fusion of the French New Wave master and his American counterpart, two directors inextricably linked through filmmaking philosophy, the latter of whom incepted and heavily shepherded the former’s career (and is still doing so 40 years later). Here, Linklater employs French New Wave style and technique to invoke Breathless itself while immersing us in the...

Make Me Lose My Breath: Linklater Meddles in Manicured Homage

It’s unclear what the exact purpose of Nouvelle Vague is meant to serve, other than paying irreverent homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the making of his iconic debut feature, “ Breathless,” (1960). But a deference to both the filmmaker and this lionized period of filmmaking doesn’t always feel enough to justify Richard Linklater’s studious reimagining of a twenty-day guerrilla film production which would become a cornerstone regarding the production of cinema and how we talk about it. The second feature film from Linklater in 2025, following the Berlin Film Festival premiere of Blue Moon, which pays tribute to Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart in the waning of his career, approaches the personality of a major artist from the opposite end of his trajectory.…...

Exclusive: Paris-based international sales company mk2 Films has signed a worldwide representation deal, excluding North America and Spain, for the works of late cinema vérité pioneer Jean Rouch.

Rouch, who spent much of his adult life in Niger, broke fresh ground with his merging of anthropology with cinema to pioneer cinéma vérité, with his work going on to be an inspiration for the directors of the French New Wave.

The deal is the company’s first with Les Films du Jeudi, the company of late renowned producer Pierre Braunberger, which is now run by his daughter Laurence Braunberger.

It comes as the New Wave is in the spotlight at Cannes thanks to the world premiere of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague revisiting the production of Jean-Luc Godard’s shoot of Breathless, which mentions both Rouch and Braunberger.

Working with Braunberger, Rouch is credited...

Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love received mixed scores on Screen’s Cannes jury grid while Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague and Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir also landed.

Die, My Lovescored an average of 2.5 stars after ratings ranged from a four-star (excellent), from Time’s Stephanie Zacharek, to a zero-star (bad), from Le Monde’s Mathieu Macharet.

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Jennifer Lawrence stars in Ramsay’s third Competition entry as a new mother battling with psychosis. Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek and Lakeith Stanfield also star.

Die, My Love’s score...

“If you do it long enough, I always thought you can make one film about making films. This is mine,” said Richard Linklater at the Cannes press conference for his latest film Nouvelle Vague, a love letter to French New Wave.

Nouvelle Vague tells the story of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Shot on film in the 4:3 aspect ratio and told entirely in French, it stars Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch as Godard’s star Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo. Breathless, considered on of seminal film of the Frenc New Wave, 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.

“Ten years ago, when we were thinking about this movie, I was thinking they’ll hate that an American director did it,...

A new hangout movie from the man who knows them like the back of his hand, Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” and pays tribute to the French New Wave in a way that recalls his previous films like “Slacker” and the “Before” series. Premiering Saturday in Cannes, it marked the culmination of a years-long journey that the Austin filmmaker said he always dreamed would end with them here.

“It’s exhilarating for this film, certainly, to be here,” Linklater said alongside stars Guillaume Marbeck and Zoey Deutch at a press conference on Sunday. “All roads lead to Cannes if you’re lucky. We got lucky.”

As it was a French production, Linklater was asked about the recent social media posts by President Donald Trump where he said there would be tariffs on films shooting on “foreign lands” without offering any specifics. The director,...

Filmmaker Richard Linklater believes Trump’sproposed tariffs on films made outside the US are“not gonna happen”.

The director was speaking at a Cannes Film Festival press conference for his French-language feature Nouvelle Vague, about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’sBreathless.

“That man changes his mind 50 times,” Linklater joked about President Trump. “Film is the number one export industry of the US.”

US actor Zoey Deutch, who plays Jean Seberg, added: “It would be nice to make more movies in Los Angeles and Hollywood, that has the biggest history of studios and the cultures and the crews. It would be so beautiful.

Richard Linklater sounded off on Trump’s tariff threat on foreign-made films during the Cannes press conference for his new film “Nouvelle Vague,” saying: “That’s not going to happen right?”

Linklater shot “Nouvelle Vague,” which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless,” in France. When asked if he had any thoughts on Trump’s recent threat to impose a 100% tax on films made outside of the U.S., the director doubted the viability of the proposal.

“The tariff thing, that’s not going to happen right? That guy changes his mind like 50 times in one day,” Linklater said. “It’s the one export industry in the U.S., it would be kind of dumb to… Whatever, we don’t have to talk about that.”

On if it has become more expensive to make films in the U.S., Linklater said: “I think the true indie film, the no-budget film,...

Nouvelle Vague director and Austin native Richard Linklater is calling B.S. on President Donald Trump’s suggestion for film tariffs.

“That’s not gonna happen. That guy changes his mind 50 times. Film is our No. 1 U.S. export,” said the filmmaker who shot Nouvelle Vague in France and his previous movie Blue Moon in Ireland — pics potentially could be “tariff”-able under the Trump plan that has proposes a 120% tariff on movies receiving foreign film credits. The debate is that, given the fact that film is digital, it’s not necessarily taxable under the World Free Trade Agreement. Motion pictures aren’t car parts.

Related: Cannes Chief Thierry Frémaux Addresses Trump’s Tariffs: “Cinema Always Finds A Way Of Existing & Reinventing Itself”

As far as whether it’s more expensive to shoot in the U.S., the Boyhood filmmaker disagrees: “I think the true indie film with no budget cost...

In Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater returns to the monochrome crucible of cinema’s youth, fashioning a 2024 sight-and-sound echo of Paris in 1959. Shot in French, framed in an Academy-ratio canvas, and rendered in high-contrast black-and-white, the film dramatizes Jean-Luc Godard’s birth-pangs as he conceives Breathless. Here, every gutter of light is an invitation to the unexpected, and each scratch of jazz on the soundtrack feels like a pulse in the night.

Linklater sets the scene on rain-slicked cobblestones and in cafés where cigarette smoke coils like a whispered confession. His camera glides past ragged film magazines and cluttered editing rooms, reminding us that creation can be brutal, thrilling, and absurd.

Through whispered arguments and bright-eyed determination, the story of Godard’s 20-day shoot unfolds as both homage and meditation on artistic risk. An affectionate portrait of youthful revolt, this opening gesture throbs with restless energy—an invitation to wonder whether...

Filmmaker Marianna Brennand notes that familial abuse is something ”that starts happening really subtly.” No one really believes that someone “that you trust and is so close to you, someone that should be protecting you” could be capable of sexually abusing you.

The stark topic of child sexual abuse is at the core of Brennand’s film Manas, set on Marajó Island where the Amazon empties into the Atlantic.

Manas is the result of eight years of research where she and colleagues interviewed young girls and their families “about this very specific reality that happens in the north of Brazil,” she explains, “in this very specific social, political, economical context. But sexual violence happens everywhere, and familial abuse happens next door to us.”

The film’s screenplay was shaped and written by Felipe Sholl, Marcelo Grabowsky, Brennand, Antonia Pellegrino, Camila Agustini and Carolina Benevides.

On Sunday night, Brennand will be...

This is Cannes Film Festival’s third invite (second time competition) to veteran American indie filmmaker Richard Linklater. Oddly his first visit was almost two decades back and he came packing a pair of films – Fast Food Nation and A Scanner Darkly (Un Certain Regard selection). Flash-forward to another double year where Blue Moon premiered earlier this year at the Berlinale (read ★★★★ review) and now we have Nouvelle Vague. How will his narrative structure, naturalistic dialogue, and exploration of human connection be applied here?

The eighth film in competition stars Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard and Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg — it follows the shooting of Godard’s Breathless in 1960.…...

Whether he's portraying beloved video game characters in some of the biggest blockbusters of the 2020s so far or appearing in bolder comedies that range from the box office hit "Tropic Thunder" to the overlooked dark comedy "Bernie," Jack Black stands out as a unique Hollywood star. With a career that dates back to the early 1980s, Black has been involved in numerous projects that showcase his signature charm. However, perhaps the most impressive aspect of his long career is through music -- in particular, his collaboration with fellow musician/comedian Kyle Gass with their band, Tenacious D.

Black has showcased his musicianship through many of his films, with his Golden Globe-nominated turn in Richard Linklater's "School of Rock" serving as a crown jewel of his career. Black has also exhibited his musicianship in more surprising ways, particularly in his two roles in the blockbuster video game films, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie...

One of the starrier titles to hit the Croisette this week, Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love just had its debut at the Palais, earning a nine-minute ovation.

Led by Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, the Competition entry is based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz and also stars Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.

Jennifer Lawrence and co bask in 9-minutes worth of applause at ‘Die, My Love’ premiere #Cannes2025 pic.twitter.com/1FBMEa2kwG

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Set in rural America, Die My Love is the portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield her lover.

Known for her Cannes drama Ratcatcher, as well as films like We Need to Talk About Kevin and Morvern Callar, Ramsay’s last movie, thriller You Were Never Really Here, starred Joaquin Phoenix and won her the Cannes Best Screenplay award in 2017.

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Following its Cannes premiere, Richard Linklater‘s black-and-white tribute to Jean-Luc Godard has released a sneak peek.

In the first teaser for Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), premiering October 8 in theaters, Guillaume Marbeck portrays the French-Swiss filmmaker as he directs his first feature, 1960’s Breathless, in Paris.

Featuring the same warm black-and-white ’60s film aesthetic of the seminal source film, Nouvelle Vague is “told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless,” directed by Linklater from a script by Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson and Holly Gent.

Along with Marbeck as Godard, the cast includes Zoey Deutch as American actress Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as her French co-star Jean Paul-Belmondo.

The teaser features shots from Nouvelle Vague, narrated by a woman in French. “A pretty boy. A pretty girl. Paris 1959. A gym. A director. A camera. Film. A producer. An ingénue. Stars. Money,” she says, leading up to the title card.

Richard Linklater’s Cannes Competition title Nouvelle Vague had its world premiere the Palais this evening and was welcomed with a 11-minute ovation.

Quentin Tarantino was at tonight’s screening as well and helped lead the long-lasting applause. It was the second time he’d watched the film in about eight hours, having also caught a special screening late Saturday morning.

Quentin Tarantino greets Richard Linklater as Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ (‘New Wave’) has its world premiere in #Cannes2025 pic.twitter.com/lofs7qKWUJ

— Deadline (@Deadline) May 17, 2025

An homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 classic Breathless, the French-language film reconstructs the story behind the film starring Jean Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. French actor Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard, Zoey Deutch is Seberg, and newcomer Aubry Dullin portrays Belmondo.

Five-time Oscar nominee Linklater was last in the Cannes Competition with 2006’s Fast Food Nation and played Un Certain Regard with A Scanner Darkly that same year.

It’s hard to imagine an American indie movie more suitable for a Cannes red-carpet premiere than Richard Linklater‘s Nouvelle Vague. The maverick director’s black-and-white love letter to the French New Wave premiered to a rapturous response Saturday night inside Cannes’ Palais des Festivals, drawing a 10-minute-plus standing ovation from the black-tie crowd.

“Cinema is magic,” Linklater said as the house lights came up inside the cinema and the applause finally began to dwindle.

The standing ovation even got started before the lights came on as the crowd began clapping in unison for Linklater’s moving tribute to French cinema.

Going into the night, there was considerable anticipation surrounding Linklater’s 23rd feature. The film wasn’t 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.

Richard Linklater’s French New Wave tribute “Nouvelle Vague” was always going to find a perfect home at Cannes, and such is the case following the period drama’s rapturous world premiere in competition at the 2025 festival. The film earned a rousing six-and-half-minute standing ovation as the cast hugged each other and leading lady Zoey Deutch blew kisses to the audience.

The “Nouvelle Vague” premiere was a spirited affair from the start. Linklater and cast member Zoey Deutch were spotted singing along and dancing on the red carpet as they ascended the iconic stairs at the Palais. Before the film started, Linklater hugged and chatted briefly with Quentin Tarantino. The “Pulp Fiction” director, who has premiered several movies at Cannes, enthusiastically clapped for Linklater during the standing ovation. Tarantino was visibly moved by the film.

“It means so much for us to be here tonight. Over a year ago we were filming right here,...

In 1983, Jim McBride attempted an English-language remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 cinema landmark, Breathless with Richard Gere. It broke one of Godard’s cardinal rules: It was in color. Although not as terrible an idea as Gus Van Sant’s disastrous shot-by-shot 1998 color remake of Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho — which, like Godard’s forever-influential movie the year before, also broke all the rules of its genre — it is dismissed today with the original still finding new life with young audiences each generation, as France’s New Wave also continues to do.

With the truly wonderful Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), premiering today in Competition at Cannes (where else?), Richard Linklater smartly has not attempted a remake of Breathless but rather a certain regard and respect for the wildly creative cinematic period Godard and his contemporaries achieved with the French New Wave. A cinema revolutionary in spirit and deed himself — just watch his...

Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptiveness

Breathless, deathless … and pointless? Here is Richard Linklater’s impeccably submissive, tastefully cinephile period drama about the making of Godard’s debut 1960 classic À Bout de Souffle, that starred Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo as the star-crossed lovers in Paris. Linklater’s homage has credits in French and is beautifully shot in monochrome, as opposed to the boring old colour of real life in which the events were actually happening; he even cutely fabricates cue marks in the corner of the screen, those things that once told projectionists when to changeover the reels. But Linklater smoothly avoids any disruptive jump-cuts.

It’s a good natured, intelligent effort for which Godard himself, were he still alive, would undoubtedly have ripped Linklater a new one. (When Michel Hazanavicius made Redoubtable in 2017 about...

In “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s ingenious and enchanting docudrama about the making of “Breathless,” the 29-year-old Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) never takes off his sunglasses. He wears them on the set and in the office, in restaurants and at the movies.

The omnipresent round dark shades serve several functions. First and foremost, they’re authentic — Godard, in the late ’50s and early ’60s, really did wear his sunglasses all the time, almost as a form of branding. They were instrumental in lending him his mystique: that of an intellectual artist who was cool, who knew how to keep his distance, who had things on his mind he was too hip to share. Yet the sunglasses also accomplish something else. In a biopic, no actor looks exactly like the person they’re playing. But the unknown French actor Guillaume Marbeck, with a bushy widow’s peak and a chiseled poker face,...

In 1959, a film critic picked up a camera, threw out the rule book, and forged a new kind of cinema on the streets of Paris. Three decades later, a young slacker pulled off a similar feat in Austin. And on Saturday, an American master world premiered a moving and richly entertaining tribute to the unbridled creativity that propelled both himself and his spiritual mentor to Cannes.

A labor of love and a product of considerable craft, Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” — which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” — is more than just a valentine to the French New Wave; the film is also a stealth showcase for a filmmaker rarely heralded for his technical sophistication. Indeed, without ever calling too much attention to its more than 300 VFX-shots, Linklater’s latest plays as a hang-out film from a world gone by – a ramble across 1950s Paris that ushers viewers into the nearest café,...

The official synopsis for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague describes it as “the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless.”

It’s a catchy pitch but also a bit deceiving. Godard’s 1960 film broke all sorts of narrative and stylistic conventions, writing its own rules about what a movie could do and paving the way for modern cinema as we know it. Linklater’s charming and well-researched homage is much more traditional: Told in a linear fashion, shot with a sizeable crew, featuring actors who look and act like the famous people they’re playing, relying on tons of VFX shots to recreate Paris at the time, it’s a far cry from the style of Godard. And yet it does an impressive job capturing the spirit of the man at work, highlighting what it took — and often didn’t take...

From Jean Seberg’s sideswept pixie cut to Jean-Paul Belmondo’s aviators, Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” has become more fashionable in today’s cultural imagination for its iconic looks and images than for how the jump-cut-pioneering renegade feature collapsed cinematic hierarchies as we knew them in 1960. That makes one of the greatest films of all time, and the standard bearer of the French New Wave, ripe for discovery for a younger generation — and fresher still for the older ones well familiar with it.

If the best way to criticize a movie, as Cahiers du Cinéma critic Godard once said, is to make one, then director Richard Linklater’s answer to making a tribute to “Breathless” might instead be to not quite criticize but certainly to subvert the tropes of movies about moviemaking. His black-and-white “Nouvelle Vague,” itself a meticulous recreation of a movie made in 1959 with all the celluloid, Academy-ratio crackle and pop,...

Richard Linklater — paragon of American cinema — has decided to go French. In addition to unveiling his Lorenz Hart chamber piece “Blue Moon” at this year’s Berlinale, Linklater went intercontinental by premiering his ode to the French New Wave, “Nouvelle Vague,” in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Watch a teaser for the film below.

“Nouvelle Vague” is set during the 1959 Paris-set shoot of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut feature, “Breathless.” Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and American actress Jean Seberg, “Breathless” follows an aimless criminal and his unwitting romantic interest as they fall in love, while at the same time being pursued by the law. Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch fill the roles of Belmondo and Seberg, while Guillaume Marbeck takes on the maestro himself, Godard. Other luminaries of the French New Wave featured in the film include François Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard), Suzanne Schiffman (Jodie Ruth-Forest), Claude Chabrol (Antoine Besson), Agnès Varda...

A pedestrian was reportedly seriously injured near the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday after strong winds blew down a palm tree.

A section of the walkway along the Croisette, the main boulevard that runs through the seaside resort, was closed as emergency workers cleared debris. The accident occurred near the Mademoiselle Gray Plage Barriere beach, a venue where many parties and events are held during the festival.

A spokesperson for Cannes confirmed that a pedestrian had been injured, but referred other inquiries to City Hall. A spokesperson for City Hall did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It was not immediately clear what injuries the person had suffered, but according to Screen International, “A man was…seen lying on the ground with blood coming from his head, being attended to by fellow pedestrians, and emergency services were called.”

Another witness told the Afp: “There was a terrible...

"He films me with a camera hidden in a mail cart." Arp Sélection has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, his next new feature film premiering this year. Earlier in 2025 at the Berlin Film Festival, Richard Linklater also premiered his first 2025 film titled Blue Moon with Ethan Hawke. After making Hit Man, he also went over to France and filmed Nouvelle Vague, a B&w film shot entirely in French about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's iconic 1960 movie Breathless – it's Linklater's very first film in French. And of course it's premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival now – the premiere is tonight. This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the same style & spirit in which Godard made Breathless 65 years ago. In order to keep with the spirit of the French New Wave, the young French actors are all newcomers. For example, while he...

After releasing two films last year with Hit Man and the rather-overlooked God Save Texas: Hometown Prison, the ever-prolific Richard Linklater returns in 2025 with another pairing. Earlier this year he premiered Blue Moon at Berlinale. Ahead of that film’s October release, he’s at Cannes to premiere Nouvelle Vague, his tribute to the French New Wave and chronicle of the making of Breathless––all directed in the style of Jean-Luc Godard’s landmark debut. A first trailer has arrived for the feature (still seeking U.S. distribution) ahead of the premiere.

The cast includes Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Matthieu Penchinat as Raoul Coutard, Adrien Rouyard as François Truffaut, Antoine Besson as Claude Chabrol, Roxane Rivière as Agnès Varda, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier as Jean Cocteau, Côme Thieulin as Éric Rohmer, Laurent Mothe as Roberto Rossellini, Jonas Marmy as Jacques Rivette,...

A new teaser trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), which is premiering in the Cannes Film Festival competition on Saturday evening, shows off some of the cinematic style audiences can expect from the homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 New Wave classic A Bout de Souffle (Breathless).

The black-and-white movie, shot in the 4:3 aspect ratio, stars Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch as Godard’s star Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo.

“This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit of Godard making Breathless,” reads a synopsis for the film. Austin impresario Linklater shot his love letter to the French New Wave on location in Paris, explaining that his mission in making the film was “to show the absolute love of cineastes.”

The screenplay is from Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson, and Holly Gent, while David Chambille was in charge of cinematography.

Unless we count some items he produced, Ari Aster is one of the filmmakers coming to Cannes without any previous Croisette history. A standout in the horror field and psychological warfare, it was only a question of time to see him grab a spot at the fest. Following Hereditary (2018) (read ★★★★ review), Midsommar (2019) (read ★★★★ review) and Beau Is Afraid (2023), we have Eddington — which stars starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone.

The sixth film in competition, this is set in May of 2020, where we see a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) which sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.…...

The black market for Cannes parties and screenings is alive and well, according to a list seen by Screendaily.

One of the most expensive offerings is a pair of tickets to Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor The GreatUn Certain Regard premiere and after-party on May 20, which are being touted for $5,495 per person. A photo with Johansson is on offer for an extra $1,995.

The film’s distributor Sony Pictures Classics was unavailable for comment. However a festival spokesperson responded robustly.

“Tickets issued by the Festival de Cannes are free of charge and strictly prohibited from being sold. Any attempt to sell or...

The black market for Cannes parties and screenings is alive and well, according to a list seen by Screendaily.

One of the most expensive offerings is a pair of tickets to Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor The GreatUn Certain Regard premiere and after-party on May 20, which are being touted for $5,495 per person. A photo with Johansson is on offer for an extra $1,995.

The film’s distributor Sony Pictures Classics was unavailable for comment. However a festival spokesperson responded robustly.

“Tickets issued by the Festival de Cannes are free of charge and strictly prohibited from being sold. Any attempt to sell or...

The American Pavilion is proud to announce a dynamic lineup of guest speakers, panels, and parties for the second week of its programming at Cannes 2025. Among the headliners are actor Lakeith Stanfield, and filmmakers Kevin Smith, Eugene Jarecki, Charlie Polinger, and Lucy McKendrick. This is in addition to already-announced special guests such as Spike Lee, Vicky Krieps, as well as many others in the days ahead — AmPav will have hosted more than 30 events before the festival wraps.

These events take place at the Roger Ebert Conference Center and are available to American Pavilion members.

“We’re honored so many talented filmmakers, actors, and industry leaders choose to share their stories at The American Pavilion,” said Julie Sisk, American Pavilion’s Founder and President.

See the full lineup of events below.

Saturday, May 17

11:00 Am

Industry In Focus: Build Your Audience, OWN Your Future

As the independent film landscape evolves, more...

Maika Monroe is replacing Margaret Qualley in an adaptation of the novel thriller “Victorian Psycho.”

Qualley parted ways with “Victorian Psycho” mere weeks before filming was set to start in February. A24, which also boarded the project in its early days of development, has also quietly exited the feature and hasn’t been attached for a while, a source confirmed to IndieWire. With Monroe attached, “Victorian Psycho” will again be shopped at the Cannes market.

Qualley would’ve reunited with “Sanctuary” director Zachary Wigon, who is still attached to direct, as is co-star Thomasin McKenzie. Production was going to start in February 2025 in Dublin, Ireland. A representative confirmed to IndieWire that Qualley had a sudden scheduling conflict and had to exit the project. It’s now set to begin filming in August.

“Victorian Psycho” is set in 1858 and story centers on Winifred Notty, a governess hiding her psychopathic tendencies as...

Illustration by Franz Lang.As an American, I usually avoid spending too much time at a festival considering the films from my own country—Notebook has an international lens, and those films will get more than enough attention from the mainstream American press. But it’s hard to ignore the American titles in this year’s Cannes selection; to look at this year’s competitors—Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, Richard Linklater, and Kelly Reichardt—is to experience cultural dissociation that suggests not only that our cinema is fine and dandy, but that, gee whiz, our country might be too. At festivals, art films are often burdened with representing the state of an entire country; perhaps too readily, they are taken as national allegories. The positive artistic force on display at Cannes, however, belies the reality back home, where misanthropic, self-serving leaders are governing with unfathomable authoritarian cruelty. These films seem...

Exclusive: Aisling Walsh’s upcoming bio-pic Lucia, starring Maya Hawke as the titular Lucia Joyce, has sold into two major European territories within hours of being announced by sales company The Veterans.

Arp Sélection, which is in Cannes with Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, has acquired French rights, while Vertigo Films has taken Spain. Its Cannes titles this year include Exit 8 and Young Mothers.

Walsh’s psychological drama biopic Lucia, stars Hawke as the troubled figure of Lucia Joyce opposite Rhys Ifans as her father, the celebrated Irish writer James Joyce.

Born in Trieste in 1907, as the second child of Ulysses writer Joyce and Nora Barnacle (later Nora Joyce), Lucia Joyce spent her early childhood in the cosmopolitan port city as well as Zurich, before the family moved to Paris in 1920, where she pursued her dream of becoming a dancer.

With a screenplay written by Michael Kinirons, the film...

Cannes Film Festival is known for its standing ovations and this year, we’re trying to predict how long they’ll last.

The Cannes Film Festival, perhaps the glitziest, most glamorous film festival of them all, is now in full swing. Celebrities and journalists alike have gathered on the French Riviera for 11 days of movie premieres and press conferences.

In the next few days, the internet will be full of reviews for the new films by Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Lynne Ramsay and even Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (here’s one!). We’re also going to be getting daily updates on the lengths of the standing ovations each film gets, a scoring methodology that’s Cannes’ own version of a Rotten Tomatoes score.

Most films presented at the festival will get a standing ovation and (some) headlines love to highlight the specific minutes the audience stayed standing up and clapping.

There’s studying the film and TV business, and then there’s actually making film and TV content. The Savannah College of Art and Design (Scad) allows you to do both. The secret is collaboration and access.

With its over 300,000 square feet of studio space at its locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Emmy and Oscar-winning faculty, and two stellar film and television festivals (Scad Savannah Film Festival and Scad TVfest) that spotlight the cinematic creativity of both award-winning professionals and emerging student filmmakers, students are able to fast-track their careers.

Scad film and television junior Joey White made his first short film in high school and since coming to Scad in 2022, he has made over 35 short films, and a feature film. He was the First Assistant Director — a crucial role on film and television sets — in the Scad-sponsored multi-camera sitcom “Lodged!” and student-produced horror anthology “Secrets of Savannah” that is...

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Hoy arranca el Festival de Cannes 2025 y, si eres cinéfilo, esto te sonará (¡es todo un clásico!): empiezan a salir las primeras reacciones entusiastas desde La Croisette y te preguntas si la película tiene distribución en España y si la veremos en cines. Pues bien, para ahorrarte algunas dudas, en mundoCine hemos hecho los deberes y recopilado aquí mismo las películas de la Sección Oficial que ya tienen asegurado su estreno en nuestro país. Además, iremos actualizando este artículo conforme vayan habiendo más novedades.

Alpha dir. Julia Ducournau (en competición)

Alpha, una problemática niña de 13 años que vive con su madre soltera. Su mundo se derrumbará el día que vuelve del colegio con un tatuaje en el brazo.

Distribución en España: Caramel Films y YouPlanet Pictures

© Cannes LA Trama Fenicia dir. Wes Anderson (en competición)

Historia de espionaje a raíz de una tensa relación padre-hija en el seno de una empresa familiar.

Buyers are finally wise to the fact that Cannes is driving the Oscar race and even the specialized box office. Everyone wants to find the next “Anora,” “The Substance,” “Emilia Perez,” or “Anatomy of a Fall.” And more buyers like Mubi, Metrograph, Sideshow, and other upstarts have emerged to take on the likes of Neon and A24, who come to Cannes armed with several titles already set to debut.

Below, we’ve identified 13 movies looking for homes that could be the next awards breakout, including new films from Lynne Ramsay and Richard Linklater and the debuts of Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson.

All titles presented alphabetically.

“The Chronology of Water” (Un Certain Regard)

Director: Kristen Stewart

Stars: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Tom Sturridge

Buzz: Even if it’s in a sidebar for a first-time director, Kristen Stewart’s debut should be a hot ticket with a lot of...