Multiple domestic buyers are in the mix to buy Richard Linklater‘s Breathless homage, Nouvelle Vague, which launched to warm words at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend.
We expect a deal to get done in the next 48 hours and it should be at the higher end for a U.S. acquisition of a French-language movie. In the right hands, there’s talk the film could figure in the awards race.
The film reconstructs the story behind Godard’s cinema classic. French actor Guillaume Marbeck portrays Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch plays Jean Seberg and newcomer Aubry Dullin portrays Jean Paul Belmondo. Characters in the movie include cinema legends Godard, Jean Cocteau, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, Eric Rohmer, Agnes Varda and Jacques Rivette.
Following the Competition title’s world premiere at Cannes on Saturday, the audience at the Palais gave the movie an 11-minute ovation. Our critic Pete Hammond said in his review: “Linklater’s splendid love letter to the French New Wave and Godard will make you fall in love with movies all over again.”
The first teaser was released over the weekend. You can see it below. Script is by Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson and Holly Gent. ARP Selection produces and distributes in France this fall. Goodfellas and CAA Media Finance are repping sales.
Five-time Oscar nominee Linklater has previously played at Cannes with Fast Food Nation and A Scanner Darkly. The Boyhood and Before Midnight filmmaker recently debuted musical drama Blue Moon at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
