'Nouvelle Vague' Review: Richard Linklater's Charming Tribute Goes Down Smooth

François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Suzanne Schiffman, Jacques Demy, Éric Rohmer, Agnès Varda, Jacques Rivette – the list of great French directors goes on and on. All of them and many, many, many more appear in Richard Linklater’s new film, Nouvelle Vague, even if just for a moment, often without speaking a word of dialogue, just their names appearing on-screen to let the audience know who they are. These are the filmmakers of the French New Wave, but there is none bigger, none who had more of a radical influence on the history of movies, than Jean-Luc Godard, who is at the heart of Linklater’s film, which tells the story of the making of Godard’s 1960 debut feature, Breathless.

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