This fall at AFS, experience French cinema’s reinvention through the ages, starting with a tour of the French New Wave programmed by Richard Linklater and ending in the cutting edge of francophone cinema with November’s return of New French Cinema Week. In anticipation of his latest film NOUVELLE VAGUE (opening October 31 at AFS Cinema), a love letter to Godard’s BREATHLESS, Linklater curates a selection of New Wave classics that epitomize the period. "French New Wave," curated by Richard Linkla

Masculin Feminin (1966) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard It was one of the first films in which Godard experimented with blending documentary elements into fiction. He included interviews with real young people in Paris alongside the fictional storyline, creating a vivid, almost chronicle-like portrait of French youth in the 1960s. | History of Cinema