The American indie cinema icon's love letter to the French New Wave, shot in black and white and told entirely in French, found its perfect launch pad at the world's most glamorous film festival.

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,