A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ & Its Cast
by Alex Billington
November 25, 2025
Source: YouTube
“You go through the world like a general, but you don’t have an army.” Netflix has debuted an extensive 5 minute behind-the-scenes featurette for Richard Linklater’s fantastic experimental indie creation Nouvelle Vague, a look back at the French New Wave in the 1960s & Jean-Luc Godard’s first film Breathless. This excellent homage to cinema is already playing on Netflix – it’s streaming now (view here). This tells the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the same style & spirit in which Godard made Breathless 65 years ago. In order to keep with the spirit of the French New Wave, the young French actors are all newcomers. For example, while he plays the key part of Jean-Luc Godard, it’s the first feature film of Guillaume Marbeck. The cast includes Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paolo Luka Noé, Alix Bénézech, and Jade Phan-Gia. In this Netflix promo video, director Richard Linklater, actress Zoey Deutch, casting director Stéphane Batut, and the rest of the film’s cast take us inside what it took to cast Nouvelle Vague and how the film paid tribute to Jean Luc Godard’s iconic film and all the trailblazers of the “New Wave”. Truly impressive how they pulled this off & how he found these actors who look just like them.
Here’s the casting featurette for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, direct from Netflix’s YouTube:
You can watch the official trailer for Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague film right here or the first festival teaser.
Un film de Richard Linklater. This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless in 1960. Nouvelle Vague, also known as New Wave in English, is directed by the acclaimed American filmmaker Richard Linklater, director of many great films including Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise & Sunset & Midnight, SubUrbia, The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Tape, School of Rock, Bad News Bears, Fast Food Nation, A Scanner Darkly, Me and Orson Welles, Bernie, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some!!, Last Flag Flying, Where’d You Go Bernadette, Apollo 10½, and Hit Man previously, along with Blue Moon also this year (which premiered at Berlinale). The screenplay is by Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson, and Holly Gent. It’s produced by Michèle Halberstadt & Laurent Pétin. It premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year (read our review) playing at TIFF & NYFF next. Netflix will release Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague in select US theaters on October 31st, 2025, then streaming on Netflix starting November 14th, 2025 – it’s ready now. Have you watched yet?
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