NOUVELLE VAGUE Film Screening (Eng subs)
Friday 6. February at 16:30 - 18:16
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Richard Linklater | 2025 | USA | 1h46m | French language with English subtitles
NOUVELLE VAGUE is Linklater’s playful conversation with film history, a work that mirrors his lifelong fascination with time, youth, and artistic rebellion. Rather than imitation, the film treats the French New Wave as a living influence, filtering its energy through contemporary characters.
A loose collective of filmmakers chase inspiration, romance, and money while debating what cinema should be. The narrative drifts like a hangout film, privileging talk, movement, and fleeting connections. Linklater captures creative ambition as both liberation and trap. The result is a film about people trying to invent their lives through art, fully aware they may fail. Its lightness carries a quiet melancholy familiar to anyone who has ever chased a dream.
Critics are quick to place the film alongside Linklater’s earlier explorations of time and youth, reading it as a late-career reflection on artistic survival. Its references to Godard and Truffaut function less as homage than dialogue, suggesting that each generation must reinvent the same questions about freedom and form. The film’s reception confirmed Linklater as one of the few American directors still committed to cinema as a living process rather than a closed style.
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
How to find FOMO: Enter the Bazari via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left behind the jewellery stand. One flight up. Video instructions here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17933106294029235
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia