It’s 1959, and 29-year-old Jean-Luc Godard ( Guillaume Marbeck ) isn’t happy. Sure, he’s a successful French film critic, but he doesn’t want to simply watch movies anymore — he wants to make them. That’s all you need to know when you start watching Nouvelle Vague , Richard Linklater’s zippy origin story of how now-legendary director Godard made his first film, the crime caper Breathless , and changed cinema forever.

Godard can’t make a movie by himself, so he enlists several people to help him. There’s Jean-Paul Belmondo, a young actor still looking for a role that will make him a star, and American actress Jean Seberg ( Zoey Deutch ), whose…

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