Paris in the late 1950s. Jean-Luc Godard is one of a team of incisive, intellectual film critics under the auspices of the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. Since all the critics around him are making their own feature films, he feels he must try his hand at it. For a film about the criminal Michel Poiccard, he assembles a team headed by the little-known actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and the rising American actress Jean Seberg. However, on the set, everyone is surprised by Godard's way of working. Instead of classical methods, the young filmmaker swears by improvisation, coincidences, and filming scenes without retakes. But something that initially arouses criticism will bring a breakthrough to the world of cinema.
"If Nouvelle Vague is not exactly Breathless, it’s a loving homage to the crazy way Breathless was made – back when you could shoot movies fast, cheap and out of control, and somehow change cinema in the process." (Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter)
Richard Linklater
Born in 1960 in Houston (Texas, USA). Self-taught writer-director was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. Typically setting each of his movies during one 24-hour period and focusing on generational rites and mores, Linklater's work explored the rebellion of coming-of-age youth.