Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Is Going to Netflix. Is Jean-Luc Godard Turning Over in His Grave?

Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Is Going to Netflix. Is Jean-Luc Godard Turning Over in His Grave?

When I first heard that “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s ingenious and elating docudrama about the making of “Breathless,” had been sold to Netflix, I initially had the reaction I think a lot of people did. I thought: Jean-Luc Godard must be turning over in his grave. For “Nouvelle Vague” isn’t just another movie about the making of a movie. It’s about the making of a movie that incarnates the word cinema. In 1959, when it was shot and ed…