Richard Linklater takes a look back at the French New Wave movement in the trailer for Netflix‘s forthcoming feature Nouvelle Vague.
The film is released theatrically in the U.S. on Oct. 31 before it hits Netflix on Nov. 14. Its cast includes Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg.
Nouvelle Vague centers on the filming of Godard’s 1960 feature Breathless, which starred Belmondo as criminal Michel and Seberg as his girlfriend, Patricia. Taking its title from the French term for “New Wave,” Nouvelle Vague was shot entirely in Paris with an exclusively French crew.
“I never even said that I’d do the picture,” Deutch complains in the trailer. Later, she warns Marbeck, “I might just walk out on you and your film.”
Linklater directed the feature from a script co-written by Holly Gent, Vincent Palmo Jr., Michèle Halberstadt and Laetitia Masson. Laurent Pétin, Michèle Pétin serve as producers.
Nouvelle Vague premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival before Netflix acquired it. In his review of Nouvelle Vague for The Hollywood Reporter, chief film critic David Rooney wrote that the movie “does an impressive job capturing the spirit of the man at work, highlighting what it took — and often didn’t take — to put his groundbreaking movie together.”
Linklater recently directed the films Blue Moon and Hit Man. Deutch’s previous feature credits include The Threesome, Juror #2, Zombieland: Double Tap and Set It Up, while she has appeared on such series as The Politician.