“Breathless” didn’t start the cinema and world pop culture’s youth movement. It didn’t launch the French “New Wave” that brought Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut and others to fame and glory as they upended cinema conventions back in 1959.

But Richard Linklater (“Boyhood, ” “Dazed and Confused”) remembers all that it did, and here’s his version of that scene, the making of “Breathless,” and the impact American actress Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch) had with that performance in that film.

Doing it mostly in French? Un bisou de chef, non?”