Had Jean-Luc Godard himself filmed the making of his iconic Breathless, the result would likely have been strikingly similar in both form and spirit to Nouvelle Vague. Channelling the free-spirit and technique of the 1959 classic, Nouvelle Vague immerses us in the chaos of the film shoot, capturing the raw vitality of the creative environment that fuelled a revolutionary movement. The result is an irreverent, masterful artefact of cinema history that shows the flipside to this legendary work, demystifying it in the process, while simultaneously kneeling before its unpretentious grandeur. At once festive and life-affirming, nostalgic and light-hearted, sincere and wildly amusing, an unpretentious cinephile manifesto from the most graceful contemporary American auteur to capture the streets European with his camera (Before trilogy). Linklater offers up his love letter to the film that started it all.