One of the most influential movies of all time, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, is inspiring a 2025 new movie, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague starring Zoey Deutch. In fact, it’s a direct inspiration, as Linklater’s movie is a chronicle of the production of Breathless.
Released in 1960, Breathless was the first feature film directed by Godard and was one of the prime examples of a movement in international cinema that came to be known as the French New Wave. Hollywood began to incorporate some of the styles of the French New Wave in the late 60s and 70s, contributing to that heralded era. But now, more than 60 years later Linklater and company are taking us all back where it started.
