Netflix buys “new wave” from Richard Linklater after making his debut

Netflix has acquired Richard Linklater‘s Novelle WaveA black and white love letter with the new French wave, specifically to the 1960 classic Breathless.

The sale comes after the first beginnings of the film at the Cannes Film Festival, where it Received a 10 -minute standing ovation of the public. “If you do it long enough, I always thought you could make a film about the making of films. It’s me,” The filmmakerR said at the Cannes press conference For New Vague.

Novelle Wave tell the story of the manufacture of Jean-Luc Godard BreathlessWho follows Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a little criminal on the run after killing a police officer, and his romantic tangle with Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg), a student in American journalism in Paris. Linklater’s French language film is shot on the film in the 4: 3 aspect report and features Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, Zoey Deutch as a Godard star, Jean Seberg and Aubry Dulin as Jean-Paul Belmondo.

THR Film critic Jordan Mintzer Written in his criticism“It is an impressive package that certainly required more money and labor than Godard’s first feature, while ironically, the moral of this film is that a big budget and the crew are not necessary to do something big. Linklater celebrates JLG’s audacity even if he has achieved something more conventional (although many on his credit, he made it almost entirely in French). Novelle Wave is not exactly BreathlessIt’s a loving tribute in the crazy way Breathless was made – at the time when you could shoot films quickly, cheap and out of control, and change cinema in the process. »»

Scott Feinberg, THReditor -in -chief of the awards, predict that Novelle Wave is one of the strongest titles that comes out of rods in the Oscar conversation. Linklater has already been nominated for five Oscars.

Novelle Wave will probably not receive a longer theatrical race in the United States, just the standard two-week window at the national level, indicates a source THR.

Deadline The news of the sale was first reported.