Netflix has acquired Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Obscure, a black-and-white love letter to the French New Wave, particularly to the 1960 basic Breathless.
The sale comes after the movie’s sturdy debut on the Cannes Movie Pageant, the place it acquired a 10-minute-plus standing ovation from the viewers. “In the event you do it lengthy sufficient, I all the time thought you may make one movie about making movies. That is mine,” the filmmaker mentioned on the Cannes press convention for Nouvelle Vague.
Nouvelle Obscure tells the story of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, which follows Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a small-time legal on the run after killing a policeman, and his romantic entanglement with Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg), an American journalism scholar in Paris. Linklater’s French-language film is shot on movie within the 4:3 facet ratio and stars Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch as Godard’s star Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo.
THR movie critic Jordan Mintzer wrote in his assessment, “It’s a powerful bundle that definitely required more cash and manpower than Godard’s first function did, whereas satirically sufficient, the ethical of this film is {that a} massive funds and crew aren’t wanted to make one thing nice. Linklater celebrates JLG’s audacity even when he’s directed one thing extra standard (though a lot to his credit score, he directed it nearly totally in French). If Nouvelle Obscure will not be precisely Breathless, it’s a loving homage to the loopy approach Breathless was made — again when you may shoot films quick, low-cost and uncontrolled, and by some means change cinema within the course of.”
Scott Feinberg, THR‘s govt editor of awards, additionally predicts that Nouvelle Obscure is without doubt one of the strongest titles popping out of Cannes within the Oscar dialog. Linklater has beforehand been nominated for 5 Academy Awards.
Nouvelle Obscure will seemingly not obtain an extended theatrical run within the U.S., simply the usual awards-qualifying two-week window domestically, a supply tells THR.
Deadline was first to report the information of the sale.