Nouvelle Vague Review

5/5

What a beautiful film. It was made in 2025 but feels exactly like it was shot in 1960 — like a documentary of the making of Breathless. In black and white of course, but it goes further than that. It's a deep attention to all the details.

I can't wait to watch Breathless again and then Nouvelle Vague again. The resemblence and style of Zoey Deutch and Aubry Dullin to Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo is uncanny.

Man and woman walking down a Paris street in 1960

Seberg and Belmondo in 1960

Man and woman walking down a Paris street in 2025

Deutch and Dullin in 2025

There's a good behind the scenes writeup on Netflix.

DCA Ticket stub for seat B4 in the DCA's cinema two on 14 June 2025
Cast
  • Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard
  • Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg
  • Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Adrien Rouyard as François Truffaut
  • Antoine Besson as Claude Chabrol
  • Jodie Ruth-Forest as Suzanne Schiffman
  • Bruno Dreyfürst as Georges de Beauregard
  • Benjamin Cléry as Pierre Rissient
  • Matthieu Penchinat as Raoul Coutard
  • Pauline Belle as Suzon Faye
  • Frank Cicurel as Raymond Cauchetier
  • Blaise Pettebone as Marc Pierret
  • Benoît Bouthors as Claude Beausoleil
  • Paolo Luka Noé as François Moreuil
  • Jade Phan-Gia as Phuong Maittret
  • Jonas Marmy as Jacques Rivette
  • Côme Thieulin as Éric Rohmer
  • Alix Bénézech as Juliette Greco
  • Léa Luce Busato as Liliane David
  • Tom Novembre as Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Laurent Mothe as Roberto Rossellini
  • Aurélien Lorgnier as Robert Bresson
  • Lou Chrétien-Février as Madeleine Morgenstern
  • Jean-Jacques Le Vessier as Jean Cocteau
  • Jeanne Arènes as Blanche Montel
  • Robinson Fyot as Assistant de Production Melville
  • Cosima Bevernaege as Françoise Arnoul
  • Pierre-François Garel as Richard Balducci
  • Grégory Dupont as José Bénazeraf
  • Iliana Zabeth as Cécile Decugis
  • Pauline Scoupe-Fournier as Lila Herman
  • Baptiste Roussillon as Daniel Boulanger
  • Niko Ravel as Michel Fabre
  • Isis Fleischer as Evelyne
  • Pierre Grenier as Un journaliste (uncredited)
Crew
  • Richard Linklater — Director
  • David Chambille — Director of Photography
  • Holly Gent — Writer
  • Laetitia Masson — Writer
  • Vincent Palmo Jr. — Writer
  • Michèle Pétin — Writer
  • Holly Gent — Co-Producer
  • Vincent Palmo Jr. — Co-Producer
  • Emmanuel Montamat — Executive Producer
  • Laurent Pétin — Producer
  • Michèle Pétin — Producer
  • Franck-Pascal Alquinet — Key Hair Stylist
  • Thibault Debleds — Additional Hairstylist
  • Turid Follvik — Key Makeup Artist
  • Eloïse Ganem — Makeup Artist
  • Karina Gruais — Makeup Artist
  • Mathilde Humeau — Makeup Artist
  • Dominique Magnier — Makeup Supervisor
  • Margarida Miranda — Makeup Artist
  • Jean Bolzinger — Unit Manager
  • Paul Quintane — Assistant Unit Manager
  • Svetlane Vaesken — Administrative Assistant
  • Robin Welch — Production Manager
  • Sarah Andriamanankaja — Assistant Director Trainee
  • Stéphane Canet — Third Assistant Director
  • Hubert Engammare — First Assistant Director
  • Stéphane Manaranche — Second Assistant Director
  • François Borgeaud — Property Master
  • Cindy Gaschereau — Graphic Designer
  • Ophélie Stern — Assistant Property Master
  • Florian Cornet — ADR Supervisor
  • Sergio Henríquez — Boom Operator
  • Helene Lelardoux — Dialogue Editor
  • Julien Martin — ADR Mixer
  • Jean Minondo — Sound Mixer
  • Serge Rouquairol — Supervising Sound Editor
  • Christophe Vingtrinier — Recording Supervision
  • Benjamin Blatière — Visual Effects Supervisor
  • Bryan Gossuin — Digital Compositor
  • Téo L'Huillier — Visual Effects Designer
  • Christophe Laya — Visual Effects Designer
  • Joel Pinto — Visual Effects Designer
  • Thomas Scourneau — Digital Compositor
  • Dominique Fouassier — Stunt Coordinator
  • Mathilde Bory — Electrician
  • François Comparot — Camera Operator
  • Josselin Delas — Electrician
  • Hugo Devèze — Electrician
  • Jean-Philippe Labille — Electrician
  • Perrine Lauras — Electrician
  • Sophie Lelou — Gaffer
  • Pierre Colse — Extras Casting
  • Anne Kazemzadegan — Extras Casting Assistant
  • Elsa Capus — Set Costumer
  • Louis Fichelle — Costume Set Supervisor
  • Nicolas Economides — Assistant Editor
  • Jean Bolzinger — Location Manager
  • Carole Reinhard — Location Scout
  • Camille Arpajou — Script Supervisor
  • Robbert de Klerk — Thanks
  • Emilia Napame — Compositing Lead
  • Pascaline Chavanne — Costume Design
  • Turid Follvik — Makeup Artist
  • Catherine Schwartz — Editor
  • John Sloss — Executive Producer
  • Stéphane Batut — Casting
  • Christophe Vingtrinier — Sound Re-Recording Mixer
  • Florian Fabre — Foley Artist
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