Jean-Luc Godard was a French-Swiss director, screenwriter and producer born in 1930 and died in 2022.
Jean-Luc Godard was a French-Swiss director, screenwriter and producer born in 1930 and died in 2022.
In January 1962, Jean-Luc Godard published his first article in Les cahiers du cinéma, a specialized magazine with which he continued to collaborate for several years.
After working as a press officer for Fox and as an editor for the producer Pierre Braunberger, he began directing his first short film in 1957.
Three years later, he filmed his first feature film, Charlotte et son Jules with Jean-Paul Belmondo. He directed him again in A bout de souffle, as well as Jean Seberg.
Then came Le petit soldat, Une femme est une femme, Le mépris, Bande à part, Pierrot le fou and Masculin féminin.
He succeeded in having the Cannes Film Festival suspended in 1968, in the midst of the student protests.
After a period of video shooting, he returned to cinema with Sauve qui peut (la vie) in 1980. Two years later, he cast Michel Piccoli and Isabelle Huppert in Passion.
In 1990, he directed Nouvelle vague with Alain Delon and Hélas pour moi with Gérard Depardieu.
He won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014 and the Palme d’Or in 2018 for The Picture Book and his entire body of work. He received two César d’honneur and an Oscar for his entire career in 2010.
During his studies in anthropology at the Sorbonne, Jean-Luc Godard assiduously attended the film clubs of the capital. He became friends with André Bazin, Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Éric Rohmer….
