News Summary

• Richard Linklater's new film, "Nouvelle Vague," is set in 1959.
• In the film, a young Jean-Luc Godard makes his first film.
• Linklater wanted to remind audiences of the improbability of Godard’s achievement.
• “Breathless,” Linklater told me when I spoke to him at the Cannes Film Festival, in May, is “a film that shouldn’t really work.” “Blue Moon” is a portrait of the lyricist Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke), who, together with the composer Richard Rodgers, sustained one of the richest partnerships in musical-theatre history.