Nouvelle Vague

Running time: 106 mins

Synopsis

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

After writing for Cahiers du cinema, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker Francois Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

We will be screening the original Breathless on Wednesday 4 March, as part of the Stroud Film Festival.