The French New Wave gets a fresh coat of paint with "Nouvelle Vague," director Richard Linklater's lovely and loving tribute to the revolutionary film movement and the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless."

Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard as a peerlessly cool, misfit rebel artist who sees the world from behind the lenses of his black wayfarer shades, which never leave his face. He assembles a group of actors and crew members to shoot his masterpiece in the streets of Paris, on the fly, and never more than two takes, causing everyone around him to panic about his perceived carelessness and the idea that he doesn't know what it is he's doing.

Among those in his orbit are François Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard), Éric Rohmer (Côme Thieulin), Jacques Rivette (Jonas Marmy), Claude Chabrol (Ant

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