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Texas native Richard Linklater isn’t slowing down after his new action feature “Hit Man,” according to IndieWire. Next on the director’s plate is “Nouvelle Vague,” which will be set in Paris and has wrapped production. The upcoming film, based on real events, stars Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, a French film critic who moves from writing at Cahiers du Cinema, the legendary French film magazine, to making his first feature film, “Breathless.” Zoey Deutsch is attached as American actress and star of “Breathless,” Jean Seberg. Godard’s work would help define the French New Wave.
“Hit Man,” which premiered in the U.S. at the Paramount Theatre in Austin on May 15 and is set for a June 7 Netflix release, earned 7.5/10 from IMDb, 97% from Rotten Tomatoes and 82 from Metacritic. A romance-action-comedy, “Hit Man” is based on the real Gary Johnson, who posed as a fake hitman and assisted the Houston Police Department in arresting 60 individuals. “Nouvelle Vague” is another true story, but differs tonally based on stills posted on May 9 by Cahiers du Cinema, as seen below.
“Nouvelle Vague was an opportunity for the writer [Linklater] to visit the settings of the historic offices of the Cahiers, the sequence of the Avenue des Camps-Élysées, and to relive those who preceded them,” Cahiers said, according to their Instagram post.
Linklater spoke to IndieWire during the “Hit Man” premiere about “Nouvelle Vague,” and said Godard and artists of the French New Wave would want to sustain the love of cinema and filmmaking. He explained that previous generations of artists would want to teach their successors “that cinema is its own world that’s worthy of reverence to treat as an elevated, all-encompassing, devote-your-life-to art form,” Linklater said.
No release date has been announced for Linklater’s next film.
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