Jean Luc Godard Biography
Jean-Luc Godard (1933 - 2022) was born on December 3, 1930 in Paris. Initially a film critic, he gradually dedicated himself to directing. In the '50s and '60s he was at the peak of his career, integrating into the New Wave movement. Some of his films, such as Le Mépris, A bout de souffle or Pierrot le Fou, have become classics of French cinema. After studying in Nyon, Switzerland, then at the Lycée Buffon in Paris, he enrolled at the Sorbonne to study ethnology. He then frequented the film library on Avenue de Messine and the film club in the Latin Quarter. In 1952 he met André Bazin, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer. He began as a critic collaborating with La Gazette du Cinéma under the pseudonym of Hans Lucas, and then established himself, with Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut, as one of the jewels of the Cahiers du Cinéma. Between 1954 and 1958 he made short films, such as "All the boys are called Patrick" which revealed this to the public. From À bout de souffle (1959), his first feature film, Jean-Luc Godard established himself with an innovative trait, completely breaking with the forms of traditional cinema: Jean-Paul Belmondo steals a car, kills a motorcyclist, falls in love and dies stupidly. Godard's goal is not to tell a story, but to offer a critical reading of the genre, in this case the thriller American This film becomes the flagship work of New Wave cinema. This is followed by Le Petit Soldat (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), with Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli, based on the novel by Moravia. the damage caused by subtle prostitution, raised to a social phenomenon in its own right; Pierrot le Fou (1965); Fused in the Dziga Vetov group, the director turned to activism for a period, producing East Wind and Pravda. (1969), or Vladimir and Rosa (1970) marks the director's return to traditional cinema. Just as Passion (1982), Prénom Carmen (1983) and Détective (1985) take up the themes dear to Godard in a now complete form. In 1991 Godard returned to the fall of the Berlin Wall with a documentary: Germany Nine Zero. His later films appear as flashbacks to his own work. Receiving the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014 for his film "Adieu Au Langage", Jean-Luc Godard died in September 2022 in Switzerland, after resorting to assisted suicide.
