'Nouvelle Vague' Is an Inside Baseball Movie for Everyone

'Nouvelle Vague' Is an Inside Baseball Movie for Everyone

Some days it seems we live in a horrid world where the majority of humans couldn’t give a fig about art. How many people in that world are going to care about a 66-year-old black-and-white movie—one that, for anyone who doesn’t speak French, requires the reading of subtitles? Yet here comes a comet: Richard Linklater’s sensational Nouvelle Vague, an agile, witty, elegant picture about the making of a movie that possibly only film lovers and bona…

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Cannes: The amusing black-and-white trifle about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" encourages knowing cinephile chuckles, with Zoey Deutch well-cast as Jean Seberg.