Entertainment‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Ode to French Cinema Will Leave You Breathless | Cannes 2025

Nouvelle Vague (aka New Wave), the latest film from the iconic American indie director Richard Linklater, is a tour de force of nostalgic whimsy. It’s a beautifully crafted love letter to the period of French cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s that continues to resonate to this very day, the formal experimentation and narrative elements crashing ashore as powerfully as they did more than half a century ago. Joining the likes of Tim Burton‘s masterwork Ed Wood as an iconic film about filmmaking, this is Linklater at his absolute finest.