Following its Cannes premiere, Richard Linklater‘s black-and-white tribute to Jean-Luc Godard has released a sneak peek.
In the first teaser for New wave (New Wave), premiering October 8 in theaters, Guillaume Marbeck portrays the French-Swiss filmmaker as he directs his first feature, 1960’s Breathlessin Paris.
Featuring the same warm black-and-white ’60s film aesthetic of the seminal source film, New wave is “told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless,” directed by Linklater from a script by Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson and Holly Gent.
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Along with Marbeck as Godard, the cast includes Zoey Deutch as American actress Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin as her French co-star Jean Paul-Belmondo.
The teaser features shots from New wavenarrated by a woman in French. “A pretty boy. A pretty girl. Paris 1959. A gym. A director. A camera. Film. A producer. An ingénue. Stars. Money,” she says, leading up to the title card.
Following the Competition title’s world premiere at Cannes on Saturday, the audience at the Palais gave New wave an 11-minute standing ovation.
