{"id":7368,"date":"2022-09-13T21:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2022-09-13T21:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:55:43","slug":"french-cinema-giant-jean-luc-godard-dies-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/life\/2022\/09\/13\/news\/7368\/","title":{"rendered":"French cinema giant Jean-Luc Godard dies aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this file photo taken in February 1998 Franco-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard receives an Honorary C\u00e9sar during the 23rd C\u00e9sar Awards ceremony, at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris. (AFP\/File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ROLLE, Switzerland, Broadcasting News Corporation : Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century and the father of the French New Wave, died \u201cpeacefully at home\u201d on Tuesday aged 91, his family said. The legendary maverick blew up the conventions of cinema in the 1960s, shooting his gangster romance \u201cBreathless\u201d on the streets of Paris with a hand-held camera, using a shopping trolley for panning shots.
\nHe continued to thumb his nose at Hollywood and an older generation of French filmmakers by breaking all the rules again in \u201cContempt\u201d (1963) with Brigitte Bardot and \u201cPierrot le Fou\u201d in 1965. \u201cNo official (funeral) ceremony will take place,\u201d his family said. \u201cHe will be cremated… And it really must happen in private.\u201d The secrecy \u2014 and choosing to disappear in a puff of smoke \u2014 is typical of Godard, who loved to surprise the world from his lair in the Swiss village of Rolle where he lived as a virtual recluse for decades. It was there that he died \u201cpeacefully at home,\u201d his wife Anne-Marie Mieville at his side, his producers said. Godard\u2019s influence is hard to underestimate, with directors from Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson to Robert Altman, the maker of \u201cM*A*S*H\u201d and \u201cThe Player,\u201d often speaking of their debt to him. French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the director\u2019s talent and mourned the loss of a \u201cnational treasure.\u201d \u201cJean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic filmmaker of the New Wave, invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art. We have lost a national treasure, a genius,\u201d Macron tweeted. Godard\u2019s house, with green shutters and a green bench out front, looked empty on Tuesday, its shades drawn, with an abandoned ashtray and teapot on the windowsill, an AFP reporter said. Despite the filmmaker\u2019s often difficult relationship with critics, The Guardian\u2019s Peter Bradshaw heaped praise on Godard, saying, \u201cThe last great 20th-century modernist is dead.\u201d He compared him to other 1960s rebels like John Lennon and Che Guevara. \u201cOr maybe Godard was the medium\u2019s Socrates, believing that an unexamined cinema was not worth having,\u201d he added. Guy Lodge, of the screen bible Variety, tweeted that it was \u201cglib to say \u2018he changed everything\u2019, but he sure changed a hell of a lot of things.\u201d Indeed, Godard became a \u201cgod\u201d to many 1960s political and artistic radicals who would hang on every word of his often contradictory \u2014 and tongue-in-cheek \u2014 declarations on the state of cinema and the world. \u201cAll you need for a movie is a gun and a girl,\u201d he once proclaimed, in a nod to US actress Jean Seberg, the star of \u201cBreathless.\u201d The movie was a fashion as well as a film landmark, her pixie haircut copied by millions bowled over by her effortless Parisian cool. \u201cA story should have a beginning, a middle and an end \u2014 but not necessarily in that order,\u201d Godard later famously declared, and \u201cevery edit is a lie.\u201d As he grew older, Godard would occasionally emerge from his Swiss bolthole to make low-budget films well into his 80s.
\nHe never, however, regained the capacity to shock or move more mainstream audiences as he had in the 1960s, though a small band of disciples remained doggedly loyal to the master. His periodic appearances at the Cannes film festival \u2014 often via FaceTime \u2014 still drew crowds, however, though he no longer held the sway he did when he had managed to shut down the festival entirely in 1968 in solidarity with the student protests in Paris. Cannes also saw the premiere in 2017 of \u201cRedoubtable,\u201d a tragi-comic film about Godard\u2019s doomed romance with the French actress Anne Wiazemsky, directed by the Oscar-winning director of \u201cThe Artist,\u201d Michel Hazanavicius. NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ROLLE, Switzerland, Broadcasting News Corporation : Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century and the father of the French New Wave, died \u201cpeacefully at home\u201d on Tuesday aged 91, his family said. The legendary maverick blew up the conventions of cinema in the 1960s, shooting his gangster romance \u201cBreathless\u201d on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7370,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/7370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}