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.”

A new hangout movie from the man who knows them like the back of his hand, Richard Linklater's "Nouvelle Vague" chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" and pays tribute to the French New Wave in a way that recalls his previous films like "Slacker" and the "Before" series.