Dir. Richard Linklater
2025 | 105 mins | France | French with English subtitles
Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutsch, Aubry Dullin

Showing Times

• Fri 13 Mar: 5.55pm
• Sat 14 Mar: 6.30pm
• Wed 18 Mar: 2pm
• Thu 19 Mar: 5.45pm

Reimagining the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is a playful, poignant love letter to cinema and an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative tumult that shaped the French New Wave.

More than the portrait of a man and his art, this film is styled as a mischievous declaration of love for the 1959 cult film, but also for a pivotal period of cinema that Linklater nostalgically revisits right down to techniques characteristic of the era. “It’s the story of a personal revolution of cinema led by a man, and by everyone around him”, the filmmaker told the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles.

Newcomer Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard at the dawn of his career, directing Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch) and Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dill) as star-crossed lovers, filming with unorthodox spontaneity on the streets of Paris. Working alongside other key players, friends and creative collaborators like Francois Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard) – who’s shooting The 400 Blows – Claude Chabrol (Antoine Besson), Roberto Rossellini (Laurent Mothe), Jean-Pierre Melville (Tom Novembre) and Jacques Rivette (Jonas Marmy), the pressure to produce a masterpiece is impossible to escape…

BBFC Rating
Rated 12A – infrequent strong language

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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