‘Nouvelle Vague’ is mild, frothy enjoyable for cinephiles

Before Jean-Luc Godard was a filmmaker, he was a movie critic. And earlier than that, he was a movie fan. 

That fandom is a part of the ethos of the French New Wave, the groundbreaking cinematic motion of the Nineteen Fifties and 60s. Yes, these administrators rejected the strictures of conventional filmmaking. Yes, they introduced new approaches to writing, capturing, enhancing, and thematic exploration. But, that crew of artists, lots of whom got here out of the French movie journal “Cahiers du Cinema” – Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, and extra – additionally held a deep appreciation for the studio filmmakers of yore. In their eyes, folks like Orson Welles, John Ford, and Nicholas Ray deserved extra creative consideration than they received. In quick, they have been sort of the primary movie bros – and I say that with all of the love on this planet.

“Breathless,” Godard’s seminal function debut and the premise for filmmaker Richard Linklater’s fanboy film of his personal, “Nouvelle Vague,” is perhaps probably the most French New Wave-y movie of all of them. It’s improvisational and fast, stuffed with what would turn into its signature soar cuts that so many would go on to repeat. It’s additionally stuffed with references to American noir movies of the 40s and 50s (the principle character, performed by Jean-Paul Belmondo, has an obsession with Humphrey Bogart). 

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