Nouvelle Vague (New Wave)

The story of New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard making Breathless, told with the same rule-breaking, freewheeling style he used to make it. From director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused).

"In Nouvelle Vague, his thirty-third film, Linklater’s free spirit retraces the filming of À Bout de Souffle (Breathless), Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature film made during the summer of 1959... the director starts off his narrative a few months prior, at the Festival de Cannes, where the project was then conceived by Godard, driven by Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut, and honored this year by a Croisette that has fallen under the spell of their Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows).

"More than the portrait of a man and his art, Richard Linklater portrays an entire generation of filmmakers and resurrects the spirit that infused this prolific period in film, symbolized by freedom of voice, improvisation, and an attachment to everyday poetry. "It’s the story of a personal revolution of cinema led by a man, and by everyone around him', the filmmaker told Les Inrockuptibles." (Cannes Film Festival)

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