Nouvelle Vague

Name: Nouvelle Vague
Genre: Comedy
Released: October 31, 2025
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 76

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Netflix | Release Date: October 31, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: This is the story of Godard making “Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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The Travers Take Peter Travers

Nov 1, 2025

You don’t need to know a thing about Jean Luc Godard’s 'Breathless' and the New Wave to accept Richard Linklater’s invitation to participate in the sweet agony and ecstasy of their creation. No true movie lover would dream of missing it. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Nov 13, 2025

Watching it again, I recognized that Linklater’s film is itself an expression of a certain approach — a consciousness — toward cinema’s pleasures and possibilities, one that at once embraces the art’s past and insists on its future. Read full review

Ben Croll

May 19, 2025

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 (or for that matter, tribuned) for his technical sophistication. Read full review

The Film Stage Luke Hicks

May 18, 2025

At worst it’s preachy and, I fear, will feel “old” to younger audiences. At best, Nouvelle Vague is the kind of movie that emboldens people to make films themselves, and even more so, to adopt filmmaking as a way of life. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 7, 2026

It may be too “Cinema Appreciation 101” for many. But for those of us really into film history and the birth of a screen master making a movie DIY style, on the fly, on the cheap and destined to “change cinema,” even if only briefly as those “rules” for how to tell a story got set in stone for a reason, “Nouvelle Vague” checks all the boxes. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Godard’s revolutionary crime drama about a guy, a girl, and a gun comes off more like a pet project or even a student film here, part of both the charms and frustrations of Nouvelle Vague. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

May 19, 2025

This pleasingly mellow portrait of a bunch of kids making movies is also an instance of defanged nostalgia — when it was an occasion to highlight the economic, political, cultural circumstances that made this kind of creativity possible. Read full review

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