'Nouvelle Vague' Review: Richard Linklater's 'Breathless' Making-Of Biopic Is a Delightful Hang

In 1959, a film critic picked up a camera, threw out the rule book, and forged a new kind of cinema on the streets of Paris. Three decades later, a young slacker pulled off a similar feat in Austin. And on Saturday, an American master world premiered a moving and richly entertaining tribute to the unbridled creativity that propelled both himself and his spiritual mentor to Cannes. A labor of love and a product of considerable craft, Richard Linklater's "Nouvelle Vague" - which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" - is more than just a valentine to the French . . .