Jean-Luc Godard, the legendary French director and father of the Nouvelle Vague, has died. He was 91.
French director Jean-Luc Godard has died at the age of 91, according to the French newspaper "Liberation."
"A total director with a thousand lives and a very prolific work", He wrote "Liberation." He was born in Paris on December 3, 1930. Among the most significant filmmakers of the second half of the twentieth century, a leading exponent of the Nouvelle Vague, he was a point of reference for young filmmakers of the XNUMXs, representing a demarcation between eras and cultures in the history of cinema. Godard has always stood out for his attention to expressive forms and ideological content.
"He leaves behind a career studded with masterpieces and misunderstandings that made him a legend in his lifetime.", writes Libè.
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Awarded the Golden Lion in 1984 and the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2011. Born in 1930 in Paris, his directorial debut took place in 1954, the year of his mother's death, with Opération béton, a documentary made thanks to his salary as a dam worker.
In 1959, he directed Breathless (A bout de souffle), considered the manifesto of the French New Wave, based on a story by François Truffaut, his colleague at the magazine Cahiers du cinéma. The feature film won the Jean Vigo Prize. It was then that he married Anna Karina, with whom he made seven films and who became his iconic sphinx, representing existential duplicity. A growing interest in left-wing thought was implicit in La Chinoise (1967) and was confirmed by Godard's active participation in the 1968 Paris student riots and other demonstrations. Then came Weekend, also made in 1967, a harsh denunciation of modern French society. In 1969, he directed Vent d'est, the first in a series of militant films, the only one in which he worked with the Italian director Gian Maria Volonté. That same year, he founded the Dziga Vertov Group with other filmmakers.
In 1976, he left Paris to settle with Anne-Marie Miéville in Rolle, Switzerland. Among his last works, in 1996, was For Ever Mozart, which premiered in Sarajevo and was considered "too theoretical" by Godard himself. Godard was not simply a man of cinema, but also a man of significant political influence.
In 2021, he and other figures in French entertainment and culture caused a stir when they signed an appeal to Emmanuel Macron published in Libération following the arrest and immediate release on probation of a dozen former Italian terrorists and former militants of left-wing subversive groups, accused and convicted in Italy of murder, kidnapping, and attempted murder. The appeal called for respect for the Mitterrand doctrine. Libé simultaneously published an article by Luciano Violante defending the memory of the terrorists' victims, because they too "would have wanted to rebuild their lives."
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