A new hangout movie from the man who knows them like the back of his hand, Richard Linklater's "Nouvelle Vague" chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" and pays tribute to the French New Wave in a way that recalls his previous films like "Slacker" and the "Before" series.

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,