Nouvelle Vague | Review
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.… Read the rest
