‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Dull Recreation Of The ‘Breathless’ Shoot Is An Astonishing Misunderstanding Of What Made Jean-Luc Godard Great [Cannes]
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“The offscreen is more evocative”, says a Jean-Luc Godard lookalike in “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s Palme d’Or contender at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It is an astonishing inclusion in a film that is, ultimately, nothing more than a painstakingly detailed recreation of the making of Godard’s debut feature “Breathless” (1960) — a painfully literal demystification of the offscreen of the influential filmmaking movement that gives Linklater’s film its title.
