Teaser Trailer for Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ About Making ‘Breathless’

Teaser Trailer for Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ About Making ‘Breathless’

by Alex Billington
May 17, 2025
Source: YouTube

“He films me with a camera hidden in a mail cart.” ARP Sélection has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, his next new feature film premiering this year. Earlier in 2025 at the Berlin Film Festival, Richard Linklater also premiered his first 2025 film titled Blue Moon with Ethan Hawke. After making Hit Man, he also went over to France and filmed Nouvelle Vague, a B&W film shot entirely in French about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s iconic 1960 movie Breathless – it’s Linklater’s very first film in French. And of course it’s premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival now – the premiere is tonight. This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the same style & spirit in which Godard made Breathless 65 years ago. In order to keep with the spirit of the French New Wave, the young French actors are all newcomers. For example, while he plays the key part of Jean-Luc Godard, it’s the first feature film of Guillaume Marbeck. The cast also includes Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paolo Luka Noé, Alix Bénézech, and Jade Phan-Gia. Oh yes, this should be good fun.

Here’s the first look teaser (+ poster) for Richard Linklater’s film Nouvelle Vague, from YouTube:

Un film de Richard Linklater. This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless in 1960. Nouvelle Vague, also known as New Wave in English, is directed by the acclaimed American filmmaker Richard Linklater, director of many great films including Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise & Sunset & Midnight, SubUrbia, The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Tape, School of Rock, Bad News Bears, Fast Food Nation, A Scanner Darkly, Me and Orson Welles, Bernie, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some!!, Last Flag Flying, Where’d You Go Bernadette, Apollo 10½, and Hit Man previously, along with Blue Moon also this year (which premiered at Berlinale). The screenplay is by Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson, and Holly Gent. It’s produced by Michèle Halberstadt & Laurent Pétin. This is premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival underway now – playing in the Main Competition section. No release dates are set yet – it’s still looking for distribution. Who wants to watch it?

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