Nouvelle Vague , out Nov. 14 on Netflix, is a movie about the making of a movie, as director Richard Linklater imagines how Jean-Luc Godard made his breakout 1960 film Breathless.

Part gangster thriller, part love story, the low-budget feature from Godard starring Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo galvanized a movement of New Wave filmmakers in France with its experimental filmmaking, from chaotic jumpshots to the actors who learned their lines on the fly.

Reaction was mixed. In its original 1961 review after the movie came out in the United States, TIME wrote that Breathless had “no plot in the usual sense of the word” and that the “only real continuity is the irrational coherence of a nightmare.” Regardless, it was a hit: " Breathless would seem to offer little to the ave

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