fromThe New Yorker
2 days agoRichard Linklater's Uncompromising Artists
In "Nouvelle Vague," a new film from the director Richard Linklater, an impassioned young movie critic expresses his belief in what cinema could be-and frets about what he himself may never be. It's 1959, and the critic is Jean-Luc Godard, a soon-to-be leader of the French New Wave, a nascent movement of journalists who are trading in their typewriters for film cameras, aiming to ignite a cinematic revolution. But Godard, unlike some of his comrades, has yet to direct his first picture.
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