…but Netflix is probably a fitting home for Richard Liinklater’s Nouvelle Vague, which the streamer has reportedly acquired for $4 million.
It was one thing for Cannes cinephiles who saw this reverent, affectionate tribute to the French New Wave and the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in particular…it was one thing for that crowd to go “whoopee!” But what the odds that Joe and Jane Popcorn would care, much less pay to see it theatrically?
Here’s what I wrote hours after seeing Nouvelle Vague in Cannes:
The toughest, cruelest, most unsentimental comment was posted yesterday in response to Jordan Ruimy’s story about the Netflix deal:
Nouvelle Vague is not “embarrassing fan fiction”. It’s a clever, spirited time trip…a mild-mannered, light-hearted, generally effervescent revisiting of the Breathless legend. This aside, what Doeberman wrote is reasonably accurate.
