"Most of the cast are newcomers, but there's one familiar face: American actor Zoey Deutch. She plays Jean Seberg, already a Hollywood star when Godard cast her as expat student and newspaper vendor Patricia. Seberg's stroll with Jean-Paul Belmondo on the Champs-Elysees, in T-shirt, slacks and ballet flats, is one of the legendary duets of French cinema. Deutch has Seberg's style down impeccably: her awkward American-accented French, her balletic bounce in that scene, her exuberant shout of New York Herald Tribune!"
"On a Zoom call from Los Angeles, Deutch Seberg's blond gamine cut now grown out into symmetrical black bangs admits that when Linklater first suggested she might play the role, she knew nothing about Seberg, or about Breathless. That was way back in 2014, when they were shooting Linklater's college baseball comedy Everybody Wants Some!! I was 19, says Deutch, and I know there are plenty of 19-year-olds who are cinephiles and know a ton about that world, but I didn't."
Nouvelle Vague recreates 1959 Paris and the chaotic, innovative shooting of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, channeling the exuberant spirit of the early French New Wave. Most of the cast are newcomers; American actor Zoey Deutch plays Jean Seberg. Deutch captures Seberg's style, including her American-accented French, physicality, and iconic cry of New York Herald Tribune. Deutch had limited prior knowledge of Seberg and Breathless when first offered the role and spent two years learning French and perfecting Seberg's transatlantic delivery. Deutch says Breathless's improvisatory openness and staccato rhythms seemed ordinary until contextualized as punk-rock innovations at the time.
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