Netflix releases trailer for Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague Breathless

Netflix on Tuesday released the trailer for Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater's black and white ode to the French New Wave that reimagines the making of Jean Luc Godard's 1960 landmark Breathless. The film, shot in Paris on 35mm with a narrow 1.33 aspect ratio and mostly in French, stars Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as Jean Paul Belmondo, and will open in select U.S. theaters on October 31 before streaming on Netflix beginning November 14.

Linklater's film centers on the chaos and invention behind Breathless, which helped define the New Wave movement in late 1950s and early 1960s France. Nouvelle Vague depicts Godard as a young critic-turned-director at Les Cahiers du Cinema, his combative relationship with producer Georges de Beauregard who at one point threatened to stop the production, and his collaborations and rivalries with contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Jean Pierre Melville. The movie also dramatizes Godard's working dynamic with Seberg and his easy rapport with Belmondo as the trio became icons of the movement.

The screenplay is credited to Holly Gent, Vincent Palmo Jr., Michèle Halberstadt and...