'Nouvelle Vague' trivia and fun facts
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Black and white
Like French New Wave movies, Richard Linklater chose to shoot this film in black and white, in the Academy ratio, and cast relatively unknown actors, including the lead, Guillaume Marbeck, which was mostly working as a photograph and a model before being cast in the movie.
Netflix
Netflix acquired the rights to release it in the United States for $4 million, a record domestic outlay for a French-language film.
Non-English
Richard Linklater's first non-English film.
Cannes
Third film directed by Richard Linklater to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, following Fast Food Nation (2006) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).
Zoey Deutch
Zoey Deutch is nearly a decade older when Jean Seberg actually starred in Al final de la escapada (1960). Deutch was 30 years old when Nouvelle Vague (2025) (which chronicles the creation of one of the earliest Nouvelle Vague/New Wave films) was released in 17 May 2025 at Cannes compared to Seberg who was 21 years old when Breathless was released in 1960.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson called this one of his favorite films of 2025.
Timothée Vaganay
Young French actor and director Timothée Vaganay revealed that he auditioned for the role of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo but wasn't selected. Victor Belmondo, grandson of Jean-Paul Belmondo, also auditioned for the part.