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.

Watching "Nouvelle Vague," we don’t have to squint a bit to pretend that this is Jean-Luc Godard. It seems, rather, as if Godard has sprung to life before us. And that uncanny quality extends to the whole movie,

Zoey Deutch stars as Jean Seberg alongside a cast of French unknowns in a behind-the-scenes look at the iconoclastic auteur directing his New Wave masterpiece.