Nouvelle Vague Blu-ray is Richard Linklater's affectionate and exuberant tribute to the birth of the French New Wave. Re-creating the making of Jean-Luc Godard's landmark debut Breathless, this acclaimed drama celebrates artistic rebellion, youthful ambition and one of the most influential movements in film history.

It's 1959, and a young Jean-Luc Godard is the only one among his film-critic peers at Cahiers du cinéma not to have made a feature film. Determined to put his revolutionary cinematic ideas into practice, he brings his small crew and two stars—an eager unknown named Jean-Paul Belmondo and wary Hollywood expat Jean Seberg—onto the streets of Paris to shoot Breathless, an adventure in unfettered creativity that would soon upend the way movies are made.

With this enthralling love letter from one cinematic maverick to another, director Richard Linklater captures, with buoyant humor and effortless charm, the intoxicating joy of being young, breaking all the rules and making art without boundaries.

Directed by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin
2025 / 106 min / French, English / 1 Disc

Film Info

• France, United States
• 2025
• 106 minutes
• Black & White
• 1.37:1
• French, English
• Spine #1327

Nouvelle Vague [Blu-ray] - Pre-Order 9/22

Name: Nouvelle Vague [Blu-ray] - Pre-Order 9/22
Brand: Criterion Collection
Price: 46.99 CAD
Availability: OutOfStock

$46.99

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Expected to ship on or around the release date: September 22, 2026.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital master, supervised and approved by director Richard Linklater and director of photography David Chambille, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• New audio commentary featuring Linklater
• Le making of "Nouvelle Vague" (2025), directed by Lucie Saada
• Interviews with Linklater and actors Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin and Guillaume Marbeck
• Within the Wave, an audiovisual dossier on the real-life figures depicted in the film, by critic Farran Smith Nehme
• Linklater's prerehearsal manifesto, read by Deutch
• Selection of trailers from French New Wave films
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
• PLUS: Essays by critic Nick James and coscreenwriter Vince Palmo and an introduction by Linklater
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