When I first heard that “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s ingenious and elating docudrama about the making of “Breathless,” had been sold to Netflix, I initially had the reaction I think a lot of people did. I thought: Jean-Luc Godard must be turning over in his grave. For “Nouvelle Vague” isn’t just another movie about the making of a movie. It’s about the making of a movie that incarnates the word cinema.
In 1959, when it was shot and edited, and 1960, when it was released, “Breathless” revolutionized the very meaning of what cinema could be. The film became an art-house hit — just about the only one Godard would
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