Auteurs assemble!
RICHARD LINKLATER ON BRINGING LEGENDARY DIRECTORS BACK TO LIFE FOR NOUVELLE VAGUE
WORDS JOHN NUGENT
Top to bottom: The new New Wave — Godard (Guillaume Marbeck), Seberg (Zoey Deutch) and Belmondo (Aubry Dullin); Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard); Rossellini (Laurent Mothe).
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RICHARD LINKLATER WAS in his twenties when his dad first took him to see Breathless (À Bout De Souffle), Jean-Luc Godard’s groundbreaking film of the French New Wave. “I didn’t totally get it,” he recalls. “It was the next time I saw it, a few months later, [that] I saw the radicalness of it.” Now, the filmmaker has made Nouvelle Vague, a fictionalised account of how Godard’s debut revolutionised cinema. In Cannes, the day after its world premiere, Linklater tells Empire about his homage to these cinema-changing icons.