Richard Linklater reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in a playful, poignant love letter to cinema.
At the dawn of his career, Godard directs Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo as star-crossed lovers, filming with unorthodox spontaneity on the streets of Paris. Working alongside other key players, friends and creative collaborators like Francois Truffaut– who’s shooting Les quatre cents coups – Claude Chabrol, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Pierre Melville and Jacques Rivette, the pressure to produce a masterpiece is impossible to escape. Beautifully shot in monochrome, this is a homage not just to one single film, but to a transformative period of youthful rebellion and creative tumult that shaped the French New Wave.
