Linklater's charming and well-researched homage is much more traditional: Told in a linear fashion, shot with a sizeable crew, featuring actors who look and act like the famous people they're playing,

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,