France • d: Richard Linklater • R • 106m • English & French w/ English subtitles
One of America’s leading cinematic innovators over the last 30 years, Richard Linklater (SLACKER, The BEFORE Trilogy, BOYHOOD) celebrates a visionary who undoubtedly inspired him, recreating the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s legendary, history-altering 1959 debut film BREATHLESS (À BOUT DE SOUFFLE). Linklater shoots in black and white, ingeniously mimicking the improvisational semi-documentary style that Godard pioneered 65 years ago. Guillaume Marbeck, in a brilliantly convincing performance, offers us Godard as a complex, uncompromising and radical intellectual with a bit of con-man and jokester in him. And Linklater (in a screenplay co-written with Holly Gent, Vincent Palmo Jr., Michèle Pétin and Laetitia Masson) deftly captures the energy of one of the most explosive, exciting moments of creative output in modern times. We catch a glimpse of heady, exuberant filmmakers—friends, lovers and competitors—as they begin to birth a new cinematic world.
About the Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival has been, for the last 50 years, a celebration of the art of film: honoring the great masters of the cinema, discovering the rare and unknown, bringing new works by the world’s greatest directors and the latest in American independent film to a small mountain town in Colorado. The New York Times called Telluride “the smallest, most original, and most stimulating of the major festivals,” while Entertainment Tonight simply said it was “the world’s best festival.”
About Telluride By The Sea
The Music Hall and the Telluride Film Festival collaborate on an exclusive presentation of six new features, brought directly from their Colorado debuts. This unique and intimate Portsmouth event treats audience members from across the Northeast to an exclusive peek into the Telluride experience—packing one September weekend in Portsmouth with the latest international cinema, private parties, great music, delicious food, and inspired conversations with other cinephiles of all ages, tastes, and backgrounds.
Schedule
Fri., 9/12 • 7pm • JAY KELLY
Sat., 9/13 • 12:30pm • NOUVELLE VAGUE
Sat., 9/13 • 3pm • LA GRAZIA
Sat., 9/13 • 7pm • BUGONIA
Sun., 9/14 • 12pm • THE SECRET AGENT
Sun., 9/14 • 3:30pm • SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Sun., 9/14 • 7:15pm • A PRIVATE LIFE
