The official trailer for Nouvelle Vague teases Richard Linklater’s latest entry into metatextual cinema, starring Zoey Deutch as a restless American film student who spirals into the smoke and mirrors of 1960s-obsessed Paris. The film appears to drift somewhere between homage and invention, riffing on French New Wave aesthetics while embedding a more personal, present-day story underneath the filters and fedoras.

Deutch’s character navigates a romance with a reclusive auteur (played by Gaspard Ulliel in one of his final on-screen roles), while staging a short film that mimics the style of Truffaut and Godard. The trailer leans heavily on black-and-white footage, jump cuts, and grainy texture, complete with retro title cards and disjointed voiceover about life, time, and cinema.

Winking, wistful, and soaked in cinephile longing, Nouvelle Vague looks to be a film within a film—Linklater’s ode to youthful delusion, artistic obsession, and the fantasy of Europe through the lens of someone always arriving just a little too late.