Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague Secures Global Release After Cannes Acclaim
Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague — his French-language homage to the New Wave — has secured international distribution following its celebrated debut at Cannes, according to Deadline.
’s ARP Selection, which co-produced with Linklater’s Detour Film, will release the film in French cinemas on October 8th. Distribution deals are also in place for the UK & Ireland with Altitude, and Netflix taking the film on for US distribution, with an awards-qualifying run planned for it later this year.
Nouvelle Vague recreates the spontaneous, independent shoot of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in the summer of 1959. Shot in crisp and beautiful black and white and framed in a 4:3 aspect ratio, the film embraces the raw, inventive spirit of the era it celebrates and will be a film for the cinephiles out there. It stars Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch (who worked with Linklater on his hugely underrated coming-of-age comedy Everybody Wants Some) as Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo, with appearances by François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Raoul Coutard.
Linklater, known for his unconventional storytelling and love of film history in films like Boyhood, the Before Sunrise Trilogy and Hit Man, has described the project as a deeply personal tribute to the movement that shaped his cinematic worldview.
The film earned an 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes, with one critic calling it: “Linklater’s splendid love letter to the French New Wave and Godard — it’ll make you fall in love with movies all over again.” Get ready, everyone, this one could be a big player comes Oscars night. Watch this space.
Nouvelle Vague is set to hit cinemas later this year.
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