We follow Godard as he is spurred on by the success of Truffaut, as he convinces Jean Seberg this is the right film for her, and how he battles against his producer to do things his way. Linklater chronicles the production from day-to-day, highlighting Godard’s spontaneous approach and the somewhat ramshackle techniques behind one of the most influential films of all time.

Filled to the brim with cameos from the pages of Cahiers du Cinema (Bazin, Truffaut, Demy, Varda to name but a few), this is an extremely charming love letter to film history. Godard is not painted as some inexplicable unreachable genius, but a coy and playful figure. Linklater underlines just how fun it must have been to create a work as liberated from convention as Breathless.