Before their divorce in 1965 the pair would enjoy a particularly fruitful professional relationship with Karina appearing in 1962’s Vivre sa vie, Bande à part (1964), and Pierrot le Fou (1965).įilmmakers who have paid tribute to the late genius include Last Night in Soho director Edgar Wright, who called him “one of the most influential, iconoclastic filmmakers of them all.” Godard is highly regarded for his unforgettable work of the 1960s, including Le Petit Soldat, which was banned for a few years, and starred the director’s future wife, Anna Karina, who he married in 1961. The director once said: “It was a film that took everything that cinema had done – girls, gangsters, cars – exploded all this and put an end, once and for all, to the old style.” His stylish debut stars Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in a story of a young American woman in Paris (Seberg) and her doomed affair with a rebellious young man on the run (Belmondo). Godard, like his contemporary François Truffaut who wrote the treatment from which Breathless was based on, started his career as a film critic. The filmmaker, who caught audiences’ attentions with his 1960 À bout de souffle ( “Breathless”), went on to a widely acclaimed career in which he tore up the rule book with his radical and politically driven work. Deadline confirmed the news after French news outlet Liberation first reported the filmmaker’s death.įrench President Emmanuel Macron said of Godard, a filmmaker who influenced many in Hollywood including Quentin Tarantino, that he “had the vision of a genius”. A leading figure of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard has died aged 91.
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