Film director Jean-Luc Godard, an icon of the French New Wave of the 1960s best known for the classic movie 'Breathless,' has died. He was 91.
Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious "enfant terrible" of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his first big endeavor, "Breathless," and stood for years as one of the world's most vital and provocative directors has died. He was 91.
Swiss news agency ATS quoted Godard's partner, Anne-Marie Mieville, and her producers as saying he died peacefully and surrounded by his loved ones at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle, on Lake Geneva, on Tuesday. Cannes Film Festival Director Thierry Fremaux told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he was "sad, sad. Immensely so" at the news of Godard's death.
Back in Europe, he took a job in Switzerland as a construction worker on a dam project. He used the pay to finance his first complete film, the 1954 "Operation Concrete," a 20-minute documentary about the building of the dam. Along with Truffaut's "The 400 Blows," released in 1959, Godard's film set the new tone for French movie aesthetics. Godard rejected conventional narrative style and instead used frequent jump-cuts that mingled philosophical discussions with action scenes.
His work turned more starkly political by the late 1960s. In "Weekend," his characters lampoon the hypocrisy of bourgeois society even as they demonstrate the comic futility of violent class war. It came out a year before popular anger at the establishment shook France, culminating in the iconic but short-lived student unrests of May 1968.
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