NOUVELLE VAGUE opens Friday with select screenings on 35mm! A playful, poignant love letter to cinema, this film reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative chaos that shaped the French New Wave. “The kind of movie that emboldens people to make films themselves, and even more so, to adopt filmmaking as a way of life.” – The Film Stage | IFC Center

Opening this weekend at TIFF Lightbox and Cineplex Varsity, Nouvelle Vague, the newest from Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater is “an ode to the French New Wave” (ScreenRant) that “reminds you why you love films in the first place” (Collider). Click the link for showtimes! | Photon Films and Media

François Truffaut about the First Mistakes and Compromises of the Nouvelle Vague Directors Much has already been said about that. However, there is something well worth recalling: the first failures began with compromise. A producer, faced with an inexperienced director, might say to himself: “All I have to do is give the boy a good cameraman.” Now it’s a very serious mistake to give an experienced professional cameraman to a debutant director: the resulting film is sure to be deformed. The same