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Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "Nouvelle Vague"(2025)

Podcast: Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest
Published: Apr 17, 2026
Duration seconds: 1660
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Summary

T Lo take a deep dive into director Richard Linklater's slavish love letter to the French New Wave, "Nouvelle Vague," about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" in 1959. After unpacking the homages and references, as well as the importance of Godard's boundary-shattering work, they settle on a single question: Is it even possible to pay homage to an act of reckless artistry by meticulously recreating it?