<p>Los Angeles: Richard Linklater's directorial <em>Nouvelle Vague</em>, which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has been purchased by streaming platform Netflix.</p>.<p>According to the entertainment news outlet Variety, the film is a homage to the 1960 crime drama <em>Breathless</em> by Jean-Luc Godard.</p>.<p>It received a six-and-a-half-minute standing ovation at Cannes after its screening on May 17. It was a part of the main competition.</p>.'It Was Just An Accident' by Iran's Jafar Panahi wins Cannes' Palme d'Or top prize.<p><em>Nouvelle Vague</em>, which means new wave in French, is a retelling of how the French New Wave movement came to life.</p>.<p>Emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the movement was led by several filmmakers, who denied following the traditional filmmaking conventions and focused on unconventional storytelling.</p>.<p>It was popular for having the projects made on low budget, in an informal style and with the use of location shooting.</p>.<p>Godard was a prominent figure of the movement alongside other filmmakers, including the names of Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Agnes Varda, Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, and Jean-Pierre Melville.</p>.<p><em>Nouvelle Vague</em> stars Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Adrien Rouyard and Aubry Dullin.</p>
<p>Los Angeles: Richard Linklater's directorial <em>Nouvelle Vague</em>, which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has been purchased by streaming platform Netflix.</p>.<p>According to the entertainment news outlet Variety, the film is a homage to the 1960 crime drama <em>Breathless</em> by Jean-Luc Godard.</p>.<p>It received a six-and-a-half-minute standing ovation at Cannes after its screening on May 17. It was a part of the main competition.</p>.'It Was Just An Accident' by Iran's Jafar Panahi wins Cannes' Palme d'Or top prize.<p><em>Nouvelle Vague</em>, which means new wave in French, is a retelling of how the French New Wave movement came to life.</p>.<p>Emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the movement was led by several filmmakers, who denied following the traditional filmmaking conventions and focused on unconventional storytelling.</p>.<p>It was popular for having the projects made on low budget, in an informal style and with the use of location shooting.</p>.<p>Godard was a prominent figure of the movement alongside other filmmakers, including the names of Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Agnes Varda, Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, and Jean-Pierre Melville.</p>.<p><em>Nouvelle Vague</em> stars Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Adrien Rouyard and Aubry Dullin.</p>