Jean-Luc Godard
Film director
1930 –
Who is Jean-Luc Godard?
Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave".
Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which "emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation." To challenge this tradition, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s. Several of his films express his political views. His films express his knowledge of film history through their references to earlier films. In addition, Godard's films often cite existentialism, as he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. His radical approach in film conventions, politics and philosophies made him an influential filmmaker of the French New Wave.
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- Born
- Dec 3, 1930
Paris - Also known as
- JeanLuc Cinéma Godard
- Monsieur Godard
- Hans Lucas
- JL Godard
- Moi même
- J.-L. Godard
- Jean Godard
- JLG
- Godard
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Anna Karina
(1961/03/03 - 1967) - Anne Wiazemsky
(1967/07/22 - 1979) - Anne-Marie Miéville
- Anna Karina
- Ethnicity
- Swiss people
- French people
- Nationality
- France
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Education
- University of Paris
- Lived in
- Paris
- Nyon
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on July 23, 2013
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