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Can great art be made without human genius and all its flaws? It's a vital question at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to subsume Hollywood.

Through new movies 'Nouvelle Vague' and 'Blue Moon', director Richard Linklater offers an answer — delving into the lives of two brilliant, volatile men whose films and plays shaped French New Wave cinema and Broadway. His conclusion? "AI is not going to make a film."

The US indie auteur tells AFP that storytelling, narrative, characters are something that connects to humanity. "That's a whole 'nother thing," says the Texan, whose notable films include 'Boyhood', the 'Before' trilogy, 'School of Rock' and 'Hit Man'.

Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague', streaming on Netflix from November 14, charts how young French director Jean

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