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,

Following its Cannes premiere, Richard Linklater‘s black-and-white tribute to Jean-Luc Godard has released a sneak peek. In the first teaser for Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), premiering October 8 in theaters,

Working almost entirely in French, Richard Linklater crafts a black-and-white film shot in Academy Ratio around the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. This affectionate homage to a slice of urban French cool that has rarely been equalled is also a nostalgic tribute to a time and place of extraordinary creative ferment and cinematic sex appeal.