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. François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, Jean Cocteau, Éric Rohmer, Roberto Rossellini and Jacques Rivette shore up here. Production took place in Paris back in March of last year. Cinematographer David Chambille (Bruno Dumont’s France) paired with Linklater here.
Today’s second feature was presented at the beginning of the evening and so the majority of our critics managed to catch Linklater’s second feature of 2025. With seventeen total critics weighing in, Nouvelle Vague is now ranked in the number two spot among the competition films with an average score of 3.2.
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