"Nouvelle Vague depicts the making of Godard's Breathless, which would influence generations of aspiring filmmakers worldwide including Linklater's own. It is a how-did-he-do-it movie, not in the form of a contemporary investigative documentary, but of an imaginary one, made in 1959 by one of Godard's Cahiers du Cinema friends and newly come to light. It is a French production with a French crew and French actors excepting Zoey Deutch, who plays Jean Seberg, the American interloper in the original."
"Linklater is a superb director of actors, both novice and experienced, and Ethan Hawke, a longtime collaborator, is brilliant in Blue Moon as the alcoholic, self-destructive, closeted Lorenz Hart, who has been dropped by Richard Rogers (Andrew Scott), his creative partner of nine years. Hart can't resist the humiliation of showing up at Sardi's for the afterparty for Oklahoma by Rogers and his new lyricist Oscar Hammerstein."
Richard Linklater released two period films, Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon, that evoke transformative moments in narrative cinema and Broadway musical theater. Nouvelle Vague is set in Paris in 1959 and depicts the making of Godard's Breathless as an imagined how-did-he-do-it documentary created by a Cahiers du Cinema friend. The film is a French production with French crew and actors except Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, and it depends on Guillaume Marbeck's credible portrayal of Godard. Blue Moon centers on closeted, alcoholic lyricist Lorenz Hart, played by Ethan Hawke, after being dropped by Richard Rogers; the film unfolds largely in one space and is broken into three dialogue scenes, delivering a heartwrenching portrait for fans of Hart and Rodgers' songs.
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