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Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "Nouvelle Vague"(2025)

Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

Tom Lorenzo

Entertainment News, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Tv & Film, News

4.5780 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

T Lo take a deep dive into director Richard Linklater's slavish love letter to the French New Wave, "Nouvelle Vague," about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" in 1959. After unpacking the homages and references, as well as the importance of Godard's boundary-shattering work, they settle on a single question: Is it even possible to pay homage to an act of reckless artistry by meticulously recreating it?

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're Tom and Lorenzo.

0:24.1

And this is the Bitter Kitten movie club.

0:26.6

Hello Kittens, welcome back to another edition of the BKMC, which is a supplement to our regular PSO podcast, where we look at a film, one film every week and unpack everything we'd think about it.

0:38.5

Yay.

0:39.0

This week's film is Nubel Vogue by director Richard Linklater, which is his loving homage to

0:45.9

French director Jean-Luc Godard and his film Breathless.

0:50.7

But before we jump into that, I do want to say, we did not record our regular PSO this week,

0:57.0

and I apologize for that, but it will be coming out on Monday, just to give you the dog ate

1:03.9

or homework excuse. I had a really super, super bed chest cold. I'm over it, but my whole ribcage is sore because I was coughing that much, and I am sorry to

1:16.6

report that Lorenzo is right on the verge of catching it just as I.

1:19.6

So hopefully we'll get this, the PSO podcast, done over the weekend before Lorenzo succumbs to it.

1:25.6

I know, seriously.

1:26.6

But we will be back on Monday with TV shows

1:29.8

and probably some opinions on royal stuff

1:32.5

and whatever else.

1:33.5

All right.

1:34.4

We love that.

1:35.4

We just love that.

1:36.4

We love the feedback.

1:37.5

All right, Nubel Vogue, which I said Nouvelle Vague last week

1:41.9

in this podcast, and I shouldn't have, but...

1:45.0

Nouvelle, Vague.

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