The current edition of the French Film Festival offers two interconnected films for tomorrow, Saturday: "Breathless," a classic directed in 1959 by Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022), and "Nouvelle Vague," a film from last year that pays tribute to the movement that defined French cinema.

Both screenings will take place at Cine Yara, a venue where audiences have already enjoyed most of the festival's program highlighting diverse styles, trends, genres, and perspectives on French history, past, and contemporary life.

"Breathless" will screen during the 2:00 p.m. slot, followed by "Nouvelle Vague" at 5:00 p.m.

Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933–2021), Jean Seberg (1938–1979), Daniel Boulanger (1922–2014), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973), Van Doude (1926–2018), Richard Balducci (1922–2015), and Claude Mansard (1922–1967), among other legendary icons of French cinema, formed part of the cast of "Breathless."

The film tells the story of a romantic, resourceful criminal who steals a car, kills a police officer, and seeks refuge with his lover, an American student aspiring to be a writer who sells the Herald Tribune along the Champs-Élysées.

Furthermore, "Breathless" is considered a groundbreaking work that disrupted and modified narrative structures and camera angles, transforming the story into an intimate portrayal of individuals who were products of their era with their own dreams and desires.

Its director earned the Best Director award at the Berlin International Film Festival, where the industry recognized the skill, ingenuity, and visual narrative approach that defines "Breathless."

Meanwhile, "Nouvelle Vague" is a feature film directed in 2025 by Richard Linklater. The French-American co-production features a cast that includes Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, and Bruno Dreyfürst.

The movie explores the life of a young film director—Godard himself—and captures the days during which he filmed his classic "Breathless."

The film adopts the same narrative, photographic, and visual tone that characterized Godard's aesthetic proposal, portraying the shooting process, his mindset, and how he transformed the story into the revered masterpiece that is, without a doubt, "Breathless."

Thus, the dialogue established between both films, the return to the past, and the influence of the former on the latter become core objectives of Linklater's work, allowing both narratives to find resonance in the history and forms of an era remembered as one of the most significant movements in French and international cinema.

The 27th edition of the French Film Festival will conclude on November 4. Throughout its run, recent productions have been scheduled to allow Cuban audiences to experience the diversity of cinema coming from the nation.