Cinema legend dies at age 91: Jean-Luc Godard is dead
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Cinema legend dies aged 91
Jean Luc Godard is dead
13-09-2022 11:44 am
Jean-Luc Godard celebrated his greatest successes in the 1960s, when he was one of the founders of a new film era as the figurehead of the Nouvelle Vague. But his influence on the medium of film extends to the present day. The French director has died at the age of 91.
The film world mourns – and far beyond the borders of France. Director Jean-Luc Godard has passed away at the age of 91. This was initially reported by various newspapers such as “Le Liberation” or “Le Monde”, citing information from the filmmaker’s family environment.
Shortly afterwards, French President Emmanuel Macron also confirmed Godard’s death. He paid tribute to the deceased as a brilliant director and pioneer of modern cinema. Godard was a “national treasure,” Macron wrote on Twitter. And further: “Jean-Luc Godard, the greatest iconoclast among the filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague, has created an extremely modern and very free art.” He also published a photo showing the director with his typical horn-rimmed glasses and film camera.
Godard is still considered one of the most influential people in cinema history. Born in Paris in 1930, he started working on short films in the 1950s. His first full-length feature, the gangster comic “Out of Breath”, was made in 1960 and is a classic of French cinema. Ultimately, the film experimented with new techniques and an aesthetic that hadn’t been seen before. The resulting artistic movement is characterized by the term “Nouvelle Vague”.
Extensive work
With other films such as “The Contempt” (1963), “The Outsider Gang” (1964) or “Eleven O’clock at Night” (1965), Godard substantiated his claim to modernize cinema. The director has collaborated with actors and actresses such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot.
From the late 1960s, Godard often focused on political themes and radical social criticism in his films. He sometimes turned away from commercial cinema. It wasn’t until the 1980s that he began to focus more on public taste, although his films then gained more space in arthouse cinemas and far from yielding to blockbusters.
Godard’s work lasts until shortly before his death. In total, it includes more than 40 feature films, as well as numerous documentaries, episodic comics and video installations. In 2010, the director received the Oscar for his lifetime achievement.
