Jean-Luc Godard was a French-Swiss film director and one of the central figures of the French New Wave, a movement that broke sharply with conventional studio filmmaking in the late 1950s and 1960s. Before directing, Godard wrote film criticism for the influential journal Cahiers du Cinema alongside fellow future directors including Francois Truffaut. His 1960 debut feature Breathless became a landmark of the movement for its unconventional jump-cut editing and loose, improvisational style, and his subsequent decades of work continued to experiment restlessly with narrative form, political content and the boundaries of cinema itself.
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AwardEuropean Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 1 Defining ContributionPioneer of the French New Wave 1 Connections
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1. Jean-Luc Godard - Wikipedia
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1930-12-03
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2022-09-13
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was a French and Swiss film director
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pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s
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View the SourceVivre sa vie (Wikipedia)
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Vivre sa vie (French: Vivre sa vie : film en douze tableaux, lit. 'To Live Her Life: A Film in Twelve Scenes', pronounced [vivʁ(ə) sa vi]) is a 1962 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
First Name: Carmen (Wikipedia)
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First Name: Carmen (French: Prénom Carmen) is a 1983 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Alphaville (film) (Wikipedia)
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Alphaville (subtitled Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution, "A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution") is a 1965 French New Wave tech noir film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff.
Breathless (1960 film) (Wikipedia)
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Breathless (French: À bout de souffle, lit. 'Out of Breath') is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
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