7.9
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Nouvelle Vague (2025)
Nouvelle Vague (2025)
Overview
Nouvelle Vague is a 2025 black-and-white comedy-drama directed by Richard Linklater. It reimagines the 1959 Paris production of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. Guillaume Marbeck portrays Godard, Zoey Deutch plays Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dullin depicts Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film emulates the French New Wave style as a tribute to cinema history.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
7.9
Overview
Nouvelle Vague is a 2025 black-and-white comedy-drama directed by Richard Linklater. It reimagines the 1959 Paris production of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. Guillaume Marbeck portrays Godard, Zoey Deutch plays Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dullin depicts Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film emulates the French New Wave style as a tribute to cinema history.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's portrayal of the French New Wave's defiance against conventional cinema's commercial and artistic constraints embodies a progressive push for innovation and personal expression over established norms.
The film uses traditional casting that mirrors the predominantly white historical figures of the 1959 French New Wave. Its narrative honors the era's filmmakers through a lighthearted depiction of production chaos, without addressing or critiquing traditional identities.
Secondary
Family elements appear only peripherally through a character's brief marriage and subsequent divorce, without any substantive exploration or endorsement of family norms. The film's focus on filmmaking leaves family-life depictions neutral and insignificant.
The film depicts no LGBTQ+ characters or themes. It focuses on the heterosexual dynamics in the production of Breathless, with no queer representation evident.
No transgender characters or themes appear in the film. The narrative centers on the 1959 production of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, depicting historical figures like Godard, Seberg, and Belmondo in their roles without any transsexual elements.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film reimagines the making of Breathless, portraying historical figures Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Paul Belmondo with actors of the same genders as the originals.
Nouvelle Vague depicts real historical figures from the French New Wave era, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Paul Belmondo, portrayed by actors of matching white racial backgrounds, with no instances of race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
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7.3
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9.2
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