Nouvelle Vague by Jean Luc Godard, Richard Linklater – I see this as one of the best films of 2025, indeed, since it was a 2025 Nominee for The Palme d'Or for Richard Linklater, this is certification that you have here one of the Top 10, furthermore it is also a 2026 Nominee for The Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy…by the way, you find more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages, plus about the same amount of reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you wish to subscribe

 

Nouvelle Vague by Jean Luc Godard, Richard Linklater – I see this as one of the best films of 2025, indeed, since it was a 2025 Nominee for The Palme d'Or for Richard Linklater, this is certification that you have here one of the Top 10, furthermore it is also a 2026 Nominee for The Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy…by the way, you find more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages, plus about the same amount of reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you wish to subscribe

 

 

9 out of 10

 

Nouvelle Vague is mesmerizing and this comes as no surprise, I have also enjoyed so much Blue Moonhttps://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/blue-moon-written-by-lorenz-hart-robert.html directed by the same fabulous Richard Linklater, I am thinking now that they are among the top five best films of 2025

 

Blue Moon has been dismissed by my interlocutor at the club downtown, we talk about movies, and this one presumes the viewer knows history, art of America, the culture and he may be right, but I do not see that as a minus, on the contrary, I feel we are educated, though Oklahoma! might not be the most vital subject

Richard Linklater gave the cinephiles Before Sunrise https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/note-on-before-sunrise-written-and.html another work of art, just as the other in the trilogy, Before Sunset – I have been less enthused by Before Midnight, I think Julie Delpy is pushing outside what I see as the zone of the very talented

 

Ethan Hawke on the other hand has been fantastic in the aforementioned, his performance in the Blue Moon – and the others as a matter of fact – has been wonderful, I have not seen One Battle After Another yet, and I understand that Leonardo DiCaprio shines, nevertheless, I have said this before, they should give the award to a couple, or more thespians

What makes Nouvelle Vague even more remarkable is that it is about the making of another film, a landmark, Breathless, which somehow, I failed to appreciate – somehow stands for I am foolish enough to miss the significance, majesty of some, or many masterpieces – and it teaches the novice about this key moment in the History of Cinema

 

Jean Luc Godard was a newcomer, but he was very determined, gifted, he pushed with his vision, which was quite obscure, as in they did not have a script, he was of the opinion that spontaneous reactions would be the solution, not a prefabricated, perhaps false attitude, concocted with a lot of rehearsal beforehand

That attracted criticism and hostility, Jean Seberg wanted to quit, at least according to this take of the events, albeit we learn at the end that her epitaph had the fact that she starred in Breathless – Zoey Deutch is excellent, I have seen her recently giving another remarkable performance in The Threesome, a very different role

 

Godard would often work for two hours and give the crew the rest of the day off, even if they were on a tight schedule, they had to finish work in twenty days, Jean Seberg would ‘cost’ ten thousand dollars, and that still seems so puny, even if we say that it must be a few hundred thousand in the money of our time…

When stars take more than twenty million, it is such a contrast, The Rock was the highest paid (though I sort of not see him as an actor, perhaps with the Smashing Machine I should reconsider) a few years back, and he took in some 70 million, and the arrangements would give him and others a percentage of the ticket sales – Scarlett Johansson sued Disney over this issue, when they did not release one of her films in theaters

 This is the link to the note on Before Sunset https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/note-on-before-sunset-directed-by.html

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

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