Richard Linklater, America’s most protean filmmaker, pays tribute to Jean-Luc Godard’s groundbreaking feature, Breathless, the film that launched the French New Wave. Shot in Paris in 1959, the original was a tribute to low-budget American B movies. Linklater breezily recreates the making of the film in crisp black-and-white with an exceptional team of actors who play Godard, his two stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and his filmmaking colleagues Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, and Agnes Varda. Linklater’s homage is a cinephile’s delight.
directed by
Richard Linkletter
writers
Holly Gent, Laetitia Masson, Vincent Palmo Jr.
actors
Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin
language
French (with subtitles) and English
distributor
Netflix
Short: Fire at Will
(Short before the feature) 10 mins.
Parents gather adult kids to solidify the family will. With Scott Cohen and Amy Stiller (daughter of Jerry, sister of Ben).
directed by
Morgan Gruer