Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent, Roland Amstutz
Nouvelle Vague is a 1990 Swiss-French drama film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Alain Delon in a dual role. Built almost entirely from literary quotations spanning centuries of world literature, it is one of Godard's most formally ambitious late works — a meditation on wealth, desire, and the nature of storytelling itself.
What is Nouvelle vague about?
On a winding country road, the wealthy Helen Torlato encounters a disheveled stranger, Roger Lennox, lying at the roadside. Their meeting sparks an immediate and volatile attraction, yet love and conflict become inseparable from the start. When Helen engineers Roger's drowning during a lakeside outing, she seems to have freed herself from a difficult bond. Then a second stranger appears — uncannily resembling the first — and is drawn into her world. Whether this new arrival is a ghost, a coincidence, or something else entirely, his presence begins to shift the balance of power in ways Helen could not have predicted. The film advances without conventional plot logic, its imagery and borrowed words doing the narrative work.
Cast & crew
Alain Delon plays both male leads, bringing his trademark cool intensity to a double role that asks him to carry the film's central ambiguity. Domiziana Giordano plays Helen, the story's mercurial center of gravity. The supporting cast — Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent, Roland Amstutz — populate the estate world Godard constructs with precise, almost theatrical economy.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers abroad, Nouvelle Vague offers something rare: a European art-house experience that rewards patient, literary-minded watching. Godard assembles the film from quotations drawn from Marguerite Duras, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, and many others — so the dialogue itself is a kind of collage. Viewers who grew up reading classical Persian poetry or engaging with world literature will find this approach deeply familiar. The film is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, making its layered European dialogue fully accessible without any loss of nuance.
Where & how to watch
Nouvelle Vague is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles. Watch it in your browser, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, no extra download needed. Subscription can be cancelled anytime.