In "Nouvelle Vague," Richard Linklater's ingenious and enchanting docudrama about the making of "Breathless," the 29-year-old Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) never takes off his sunglasses. He wears them on the set and in the office,

Linklater is best known for his walk-and-talk Before trilogy, titles like Dazed and Confused and Boyhood, and for his naturalistic filmmaking. Linklater, who was previously at the fest with 2006 sci-fi thriller A Scanner Darkly, said of what Breathless meant to him, as a filmmaker, that “It represented freedom and the notion of the personal film.”