The American indie cinema icon's love letter to the French New Wave, shot in black and white and told entirely in French, found its perfect launch pad at the world's most glamorous film festival.

In "Nouvelle Vague," Richard Linklater's ingenious and enchanting docudrama about the making of "Breathless," the 29-year-old Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) never takes off his sunglasses. He wears them on the set and in the office,