A number of home patrons are within the combine to purchase Richard Linklater‘s Breathless homage, Nouvelle Imprecise, which launched to heat phrases on the Cannes Movie Pageant over the weekend.
We anticipate a deal to get carried out within the subsequent 48 hours and it ought to be on the increased finish for a U.S. acquisition of a French-language film. In the proper arms, there’s discuss the movie might determine within the awards race.
The movie reconstructs the story behind Godard’s cinema traditional. French actor Guillaume Marbeck portrays Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch performs Jean Seberg and newcomer Aubry Dullin portrays Jean Paul Belmondo. Characters within the film embody cinema legends Godard, Jean Cocteau, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, Eric Rohmer, Agnes Varda and Jacques Rivette.
Following the Competitors title’s world premiere at Cannes on Saturday, the viewers on the Palais gave the film an 11-minute ovation. Our critic Pete Hammond stated in his overview: “Linklater’s splendid love letter to the French New Wave and Godard will make you fall in love with films another time.”
The primary teaser was launched over the weekend. You may see it beneath. Script is by Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson and Holly Gent. ARP Choice produces and distributes in France this fall. Goodfellas and CAA Media Finance are repping gross sales.
5-time Oscar nominee Linklater has beforehand performed at Cannes with Quick Meals Nation and A Scanner Darkly. The Boyhood and Earlier than Midnight filmmaker just lately debuted musical drama Blue Moon at this 12 months’s Berlin Movie Pageant.