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Film festival attendees (and now, awards watchers) have been able to enjoy a double dose of Richard Linklater in 2025, as the Austin-based filmmaker has released two very different films about 20th century artists and entertainment figures. In \u201cBlue Moon,\u201d<\/a> Ethan Hawke plays 20th century lyricist Lorenz Hart \u2014 who collaborated with Richard Rodgers before being pushed aside in favor of Oscar Hammerstein II \u2014 in a somber chamber piece about a bitter artist watching an old friend succeed without him. On the other end of the spectrum is \u201cNouvelle Vague,\u201d which sees Linklater applying his distinct knack for making breezy hangout films to the French New Wave.<\/p>\n The film, which was shot entirely in Paris with a French crew, is a love letter to Jean-Luc Godard and French New Wave cinema, chronicling the chaotic process of shooting \u201cBreathless\u201d in 1959. Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard, while Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch play the legendary co-stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. Plenty of other familiar faces from the era of French cinema make appearances as well, with many critics likening the film to Linklater\u2019s version of \u201cMidnight in Paris.<\/p>\n More from IndieWire<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIf the best way to criticize a movie, as Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma critic Godard once said, is to make one, then director\u00a0Richard Linklater\u2019s\u00a0answer to making a tribute to \u2018Breathless\u2019 might instead be to not quite criticize but certainly to subvert the tropes of movies about moviemaking,\u201d IndieWire\u2019s Ryan Lattanzio wrote<\/a> in his Cannes review. \u201cHis black-and-white \u2018Nouvelle Vague,\u2019 itself a meticulous recreation of a movie made in 1959 with all the celluloid, Academy-ratio crackle and pop, is more New Wave hangout movie than cinema history, with the parade of faces and names inspiring knowing chuckles in the cinephile audience.\u201d<\/p>\n Following its Cannes debut, \u201cNouvelle Vague\u201d made its U.S. premiere at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival, where Deutsch spoke to IndieWire<\/a> about what she saw as parallels between Linklater and Godard.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are two artists that have maintained their artistic integrity as filmmakers that do what they want to do and make movies that they want to make, not what other people want to see,\u201d Deutsch said. \u201cThat is a rare quality. Even the greatest filmmakers of all time, most of them, waver at one point or another, and that\u2019s OK. It is astonishing that [Rick] has never wavered from doing things that he wants to do for himself \u2014 not selfishly, but because that\u2019s what you do. You make things that live inside of you that you have to get out and then it relates to other people. He and Godard share that quality.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNouvelle Vague\u201d opens in select theaters on Friday, October 31 before streaming on Netflix on November 14. Watch the teaser trailer below.<\/p>\n Best of IndieWire<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Indiewire’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Film festival attendees (and now, awards watchers) have been able to enjoy a double dose of Richard Linklater in 2025, as the Austin-based filmmaker has released two very different films about 20th century artists and entertainment figures. 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