History Creator / JeanLucGodard

He grew up in UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} but was born in and made his name UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} as a film critic, writing for the movie critic magazine ''Les Cahiers du Cinéma'' founded by André Bazin and part of a circle of friends that included, Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, Creator/EricRohmer, Creator/ClaudeChabrol, Jacques Rivette [[AndZoidberg and others]]. Together they dreamed of shaking up what they felt was the inferior French films of the '50s, taking inspiration from American, Italian and Japanese films they saw at the Cinematheque and believing the director was the artist and that it was possible to make films which were as personal as a book was to an author. The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave Nouvelle Vague]] was born, along with the concept of UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory.

He grew up in UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} but was born in and made his name UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} as a film critic, writing for the movie critic magazine ''Les Cahiers du Cinéma'' founded by André Bazin and part of a circle of friends that included, Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, [[YoungFutureFamousPeople Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette]] [[AndZoidberg and others]]. Together they dreamed of shaking up what they felt was the inferior French films of the '50s, taking inspiration from American, Italian and Japanese films they saw at the Cinematheque and believing the director was the artist and that it was possible to make films which were as personal as a book was to an author. The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave Nouvelle Vague]] was born, along with the concept of UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory.

He grew up in UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} but was born in and made his name UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} as a film critic, writing for the movie critic magazine ''Les Cahiers du Cinema'' founded by André Bazin and part of a circle of friends that included, Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, [[YoungFutureFamousPeople Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette]] [[AndZoidberg and others]]. Together they dreamed of shaking up what they felt was the inferior French films of the '50s, taking inspiration from American, Italian and Japanese films they saw at the Cinematheque and believing the director was the artist and that it was possible to make films which were as personal as a book was to an author. The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave Nouvelle Vague]] was born, along with the concept of UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory.

He grew up in UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} but was born in and made his name UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, UsefulNotes/{{France}} as a film critic, writing for the movie critic magazine ''Les Cahiers du Cinema'' founded by André Bazin and part of a circle of friends that included, Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, [[YoungFutureFamousPeople Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette]] [[AndZoidberg and others]]. Together they dreamed of shaking up what they felt was the inferior French films of the '50s, taking inspiration from American, Italian and Japanese films they saw at the Cinematheque and believing the director was the artist and that it was possible to make films which were as personal as a book was to an author. The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave Nouvelle Vague]] was born, along with the concept of UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory.

He grew up in UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} but was born in and made his name UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, UsefulNotes/{{France}} as a film critic, writing for the movie critic magazine ''Les Cahiers du Cinema'' founded by André Bazin and part of a circle of friends that included, Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, [[YoungFutureFamousPeople Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette]] [[AndZoidberg and others]]. Together they dreamed of shaking up what they felt was the inferior French films of the '50s, taking inspiration from American, Italian and Japanese films they saw at the Cinematheque and believing the director was the artist and that it was possible to make films which were as personal as a book was to an author. The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave Nouvelle Vague]] was born.

Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930) grew up in UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} but was born in and made his name UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, UsefulNotes/{{France}} as a film critic, writing for the movie critic magazine ''Les Cahiers du Cinema'' founded by André Bazin and part of a circle of friends that included, Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, [[YoungFutureFamousPeople Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette]] [[AndZoidberg and others]]. Together they dreamed of shaking up what they felt was the inferior French films of the '50s, taking inspiration from American, Italian and Japanese films they saw at the Cinematheque and believing the director was the artist and that it was possible to make films which were as personal as a book was to an author. The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave Nouvelle Vague]] was born.

Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930) grew up in UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} but made his name in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, UsefulNotes/{{France}} as a film critic, writing for the movie critic magazine ''Les Cahiers du Cinema'' founded by André Bazin and part of a circle of friends that included, Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, [[YoungFutureFamousPeople Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette]] [[AndZoidberg and others]]. Together they dreamed of shaking up what they felt was the inferior French films of the '50s, taking inspiration from American, Italian and Japanese films they saw at the Cinematheque and believing the director was the artist and that it was possible to make films which were as personal as a book was to an author. The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave Nouvelle Vague]] was born.

He's famous in America primarily for his [[TheSixties '60s films]] which strongly influenced college students and rock musicians at the time. He collaborated with Music/TheRollingStones and recorded the original recording sessions of ''Sympathy for the Devil''. This was a period of many radical films that were [[GenreDeconstruction Genre Deconstructions]] of FilmNoir, BMovie, ScienceFiction, TheMusical and even a film about film-making like ''Contempt'' starring Creator/BrigitteBardot and director Creator/FritzLang AsHimself. The film Film/{{Breathless}} pioneered the JumpCut which was later adopted and overused by later directors and ironically in the kind of action films and music videos which were world's away from the kind of films Godard made. He himself became involved in leftist political causes which made him unfashionable in the United States and controversial around the world, despite this he remains active to this day, still as untamed and unpredictable as ever.

Creator/MichelHazanavicius directed a {{biopic}} in 2017, titled ''Redoubtable'' (''Le Redoutable''), about Godard's affair with Anne Wiazemsky in the late 1960s.

Creator/Michelhazanavicius directed a {{biopic}} in 2017, titled ''Redoubtable'' (''Le Redoutable''), about Godard's affair with Anne Wiazemsky in the late 1960s.

With the deaths of Jacques Rivette in 2016 and Agnès Varda in 2019, Godard [[LastOfHisKind the last surviving director of the French New Wave.]]

His films are studied and viewed around the world. They are taught in film schools whose graduates go on to create ad films and music videos or go into other fields but who follow his inspiration or react against it one way or another. He had a huge following among the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood. Creator/FrancisFordCoppola at one point presented his films in America for release and he and Godard planned to collaborate. Creator/MartinScorsese has always testified to his influence as well. That said, in later years, he became very unflattering to American films and especially the films of Creator/StevenSpielberg though he liked Creator/WoodyAllen enough to make a movie about him(''Meeting WA'') and cast him in one of his works. In Europe, he's an inescapable influence with directors dividing movies pre and post Godard with his MeaningfulName and his own love for puns leading to the easy word association of God/Art.

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Godard also has a history of collaboration with his romantic partners. His first wife was the actress Creator/AnnaKarina, who served as his muse during the sixties and acted in some of his most famous films. His second wife was the actress Anne Wiazemsky (who starred in Film/AuHasardBalthazar). He also had a relationship with filmmaker Anne-Marie Mieville, who collaborated with him behind the camera, co-writing several of his movies.

* ''Film/DeuxOuTroisChosesQueJeSaisDElle'' (1967)

Godard's regular muse was Creator/AnnaKarina, who acted in several of the films during the 1960's. They were, for a time, married.

Godard's regular muse was Creator/AnnaKarina who acted in several of his 60's films. She was also his wife for some time.

Godard gradually became something bigger. To put it simply, he might be to the movies what Creator/JamesJoyce is to literature, Creator/PabloPicasso is to painting, and Music/DavidBowie or Music/BobDylan to popular music. All these artists had a firm awareness of the history of their mediums, a huge range of references and a strong intellectual vision and they expanded the medium to areas never before seen, inventing new techniques that were controversial at the time but eventually provoked [[FollowTheLeader many imitators]] who tended to be more successful than their inspirations. Godard was no different.

His films are studied and viewed by people across the world. They are taught in film schools whose graduates go on to create ad films and music videos or go into other fields but who follow his inspiration or react against it one way or another. He had a huge following among the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood. Creator/FrancisFordCoppola at one point presented his films in America for release and he and Godard planned to collaborate. Creator/MartinScorsese has always testified to his influence as well. That said, in later years, he became very unflattering to American films and especially the films of Creator/StevenSpielberg though he liked Creator/WoodyAllen enough to make a movie about him(''Meeting WA'') and cast him in one of his works. In Europe, he's an inescapable influence with directors dividing movies pre and post Godard with his MeaningfulName and his own love for puns leading to the easy word association of God/Art.

He's famous in America primarily for his [[TheSixties 60s films]] which strongly influenced college students and rock musicians at the time. He collaborated with Music/TheRollingStones and recorded the original recording sessions of ''Sympathy for the Devil''. This was a period of many radical films that were [[GenreDeconstruction Genre Deconstructions]] of FilmNoir, BMovie, ScienceFiction, TheMusical and even a film about film-making like ''Contempt'' starring Creator/BrigitteBardot and director Creator/FritzLang AsHimself. The film Film/{{Breathless}} pioneered the JumpCut which was later adopted and overused by later directors and ironically in the kind of action films and music videos which were world's away from the kind of films Godard made. He himself became involved in leftist political causes which made him unfashionable in the United States and controversial around the world, despite this he remains active to this day, still as untamed and unpredictable as ever.

!!Works by Jean-Luc Godard with their own trope pages include:

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