Austin Film Society and Netflix Present the Austin Premiere of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague on October 27 with Cast and Special 35mm Presentation
October 6, 2025, AUSTIN, TX— Today, the Austin Film Society (AFS) and Netflix announced the AFS Cinema will host the Austin premiere of AFS Founder and Artistic Director Richard Linklater’s new film Nouvelle Vague on October 27 at 7 p.m. The special event will feature Linklater and actors Guillaume Marbeck, who plays Jean-Luc Godard, and Zoey Deutch, who plays Jean Seberg. The film imagines the making of Godard’s Breathless, a flash point for international cinema and landmark of the French New Wave movement.
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Watch the trailer for Nouvelle Vague HERE.
This special event will include two simultaneous screenings of the film, with one theater exhibiting the film on a 35mm print, followed by an in-person Q&A with Linklater, Marbeck and Deutch. An additional theater will feature a digital presentation of the film, a live introduction with director and cast and will simultaneously livestream the evening’s Q&A.
Advanced access to tickets will be available to AFS Members on Wednesday, October 8, at 12 p.m. Public tickets will be available on Friday, October 10, at 12 p.m. AFS Cinema will offer assigned seating for this special event.
For more information and to purchase tickets to the Austin premiere of Nouvelle Vague, click HERE.
At a press conference following the world premiere of Nouvelle Vague at Cannes 2025, Linklater said the following:
“I said, ‘We’re making a film from 1959, but it’s not a Godard film. It’s not made by him, it’s made by somebody else … about this moment.’ You can’t imitate Godard — you’d fail — but we could feel the style of the time. There’s not a shot in the movie that wouldn’t be in a film from back then. It was a crazy idea, but film people are crazy.”
The Austin Film Society will celebrate French cinema throughout the fall of 2025 as part of its program “Eternal Youth: New Wave & French Cinemas of Tomorrow.” Kicking off the program is a series of films called “French New Wave, Curated by Richard Linklater,” which concludes with screenings of Breathless on October 29 and 31, the foundational work and basis of Nouvelle Vague. Then, from November 20–23, AFS will also host New French Cinema Week, an annual festival of new work by rising voices from around the Francophone world. Tickets for New French Cinema Week will go on sale soon.
To learn more about all the events in “Eternal Youth: New Wave & French Cinemas of Tomorrow,” click HERE.
On October 24, the AFS Cinema will also host an Austin premiere screening of Richard Linklater’s upcoming 2025 release, Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley. The AFS screening will include Linklater and producer Mike Blizzard (Hit Man, Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood) introducing the film and participating in a post-screening Q&A.
For more information about AFS’s special theatrical screening of Blue Moon, click HERE.
About Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague is Richard Linklater’s love letter to the revolutionary magic of the French New Wave, reimagining the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960), which cemented Godard’s place as a pioneer of global cinema. As critic-turned-director Godard makes and breaks the rules, a mix of fresh faces and daring talents bring his spontaneous, electric film to life. Capturing the youthful dynamism and creative chaos at the heart of one of the world’s most beloved and influential movies, Nouvelle Vague transports us to the streets of 1959 Paris for an ode to the transformative power of cinema. Nouvelle Vague will screen in select US theaters on October 31 and stream on Netflix in the US on November 14.
About Austin Film Society
Founded in 1985 by filmmaker Richard Linklater, AFS creates life-changing opportunities for filmmakers, catalyzes Austin and Texas as a creative hub, and brings the community together around great film. AFS supports filmmakers towards career leaps, encouraging exceptional artistic projects with grants and support services. AFS operates Austin Studios, a 20-acre production facility, to attract and grow the creative media ecosystem. Austin Public, a space for our city’s diverse mediamakers to train and collaborate, provides many points of access to filmmaking and film careers. The AFS Cinema is an ambitiously programmed repertory and first run arthouse with broad community engagement. By hosting premieres, special events, and the Texas Film Awards, AFS shines the national spotlight on Texas filmmakers while connecting Austin and Texas to the wider film community. AFS is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Will Stefanski | will@austinfilm.org
