Watching "Nouvelle Vague," we don't have to squint a bit to pretend that this is Jean-Luc Godard. It seems, rather, as if Godard has sprung to life before us. And that uncanny quality extends to the whole movie,

Linklater is best known for his walk-and-talk Before trilogy, titles like Dazed and Confused and Boyhood, and for his naturalistic filmmaking. Linklater, who was previously at the fest with 2006 sci-fi thriller A Scanner Darkly, said of what Breathless meant to him, as a filmmaker, that “It represented freedom and the notion of the personal film.”