After writing for Cahiers du Cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best form of film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague. Linklater’s ode to the French New Wave, its continuing influence, and youthful experimentation, is a “joyful mythology” (Richard Brody) and a “cinephile’s declaration of love” (Cannes).