Netflix acquired the rights to release it in the United States for $4 million, a record domestic outlay for a French-language film.
Third film directed by Richard Linklater to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, following Fast Food Nation (2006) and A Scanner Darkly - Der dunkle Schirm (2006).
Like French New Wave movies, Richard Linklater chose to shoot this film in black and white, in the Academy ratio, and cast relatively unknown actors, including the lead, Guillaume Marbeck, which was mostly working as a photograph and a model before being cast in the movie.
Zoey Deutch is nearly a decade older when Jean Seberg actually starred in Außer Atem (1960). Deutch was 30 years old when Nouvelle Vague (2025) (which chronicles the creation of one of the earliest Nouvelle Vague/New Wave films) was released in 17 May 2025 at Cannes compared to Seberg who was 21 years old when Breathless was released in 1960.