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Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is a trés chic love letter to Jean-Luc Goddard’s A Bout De Souffle
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Irish News
Now, the director is going back to the source with Nouvelle Vague, a fly-on-the-wall dramatisation of how Jean-Luc Goddard made his seminal 1960 New Wave classic, A Bout De Souffle (Breathless).
The Texas-raised writer/director brings a cinephile passion and eye for detail to a film which takes audiences inside film critic turned film-maker Goddard’s landmark crime/romance flick.
Filmed largely in French, in black and white and using Academy ratio for proper period vibes while re-visiting the real Parisian locations used by Goddard, Nouvelle Vague finds Linklater convincingly turning back time by digitally erasing 67 years of commercialisation and re-development.
Nouvelle Vague captures the 28-year-old Goddard as the aspiring film-maker makes a seismic belated leap from shorts to features.
Rating: 4/5Nouvelle Vague (12A, 106mins) is screening now at QFT Belfast, tickets and showtimes via queensfilmtheatre.com