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Jean-Luc Godard has died

The cinematographer passed away at the age of 91 director Jean-Luc Godard, who is considered the “godfather” of the French “Nouvelle Vague”.

Jean-Luc Godard’s engagement with taboo subjects as well as new techniques shook the film establishment and inspired iconoclastic filmmakers decades after his career peaked in the 1960s.

The news of his death, as reported by the Athens News Agency, was announced by the French newspaper Liberation.

Jean-Luc Godard had directed over 100 films in total and his first was Breathless (1960) which is considered a landmark for the New Wave.

In 1968, Godard abandoned the nouveau vag and founded with Jean-Pierre Gorin the film group Dziga Vertov Group, named after the famous Soviet director. It was a group of politically active filmmakers who collectively and anonymously created experimental and political films that supported movements such as Maoism and Marxism.

Jean-Luc Godard in 2002 in a vote of critics of the film magazine Sight & Sound, the British Film Institute (BFI), was ranked third among the ten best directors of all time.

Only 10 years later, in 2012, Sight & Sound named his film “Breathless” the 13th best film of all time. In the same vote and in particular in the list of the best films three more of his films were included, The Contempt, The Mad Pierrot and Histoire(s) du Cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard turned down invitation from Russia and sided with Oleg Sentsov

In 2018, Jean-Luc Godard refused to go to the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg because of “the detention conditions of director Oleg Sentsov” the French-Swiss filmmaker said in a message at the time.

“Thank you for your invitation, but given the circumstances of director Oleg Sentsov’s detention, I do not feel that I am currently allowed to visit the Hermitage, whatever my friendship with the Russian people,” wrote Jean-Luc Godard in this message to Dmitry Ozerkov, director of the contemporary art department of the Hermitage museum who invited him to visit the museum.

Source: News Beast

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