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Jean-Luc Godard filmography
Jean-Luc Godard was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film editor whose career spanned nearly seventy years. He directed, wrote, produced and edited many films. The following attempts to be a comprehensive filmography.
Early short films: 1955–1959
New Wave (Nouvelle Vague): 1960–1967
Feature films
Short films
Dziga Vertov Group/political films: 1968–1972
Although Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin were the principal creative forces behind these films, they usually went without on-screen credit. Most of the films from this time period were credited to the Dziga Vertov Group collective.
Transitional period (SonImage): 1974–1978
Swiss Films: 1979–1988
Feature films
Short films/videos
Late films: 1988–2023
Feature and short films
Video work
Only acting credit
Contribution works
References
External links
Jean-Luc Godard
Early Life
Jean-Luc Godard was born on December 3, 1930, in Paris, France. He grew up in a bourgeois Protestant family. His family moved to Switzerland during World War II. Godard later returned to Paris to study ethnology at the Sorbonne, but his real passion was cinema.
Entering the Film World
During the 1950s, he began engaging with the vibrant Parisian film culture, frequenting the Cinémathèque Française, where he, along with future directors and critics like François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, and Claude Chabrol, absorbed the vast history of film.
Godard initially made a name for himself as a critic for the influential film magazine "Cahiers du Cinéma." Along with his contemporaries, he laid the groundwork for what would later be known as the auteur theory, which posited the director as the primary creative force behind a film.
The French New Wave
In 1959, he made his directorial debut with "Breathless" (À Bout de Souffle), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. It was a groundbreaking film that ushered in the French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague). The film was marked by its jump cuts, on-location shooting, and its breezy, yet poignant narrative. It was revolutionary for its time and announced Godard as a major new voice in cinema.
Throughout the 1960s, Godard produced a barrage of films, further establishing himself as a force to be reckoned with in the world of cinema. Films like "Vivre sa Vie," "Contempt," and "Pierrot le Fou" became classics, known for their innovative storytelling, political undertones, and the often improvised nature of their production.
His iconic movie “Breathless” (A Bout de Souffle)
"À Bout de Souffle" (often translated as "Breathless" in English) is not just one of Jean-Luc Godard's most famous films, but it's also among the most iconic and Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of Switzerland and attended school in Nyons, Switzerland. His parents divorced in 1948, at which time he returned to Paris to attend the Lycée Rohmer. In 1949 he studied at the Sorbonne to prepare for a degree in ethnology. However, it was during this time that he began attending with François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, and Éric Rohmer. French and Swiss film director (1930–2022) "Godard" redirects here. For other uses, see Godard (disambiguation). Jean-Luc Godard Godard in 1968 Paris, France Rolle, Vaud, Switzerland Anna Karina Anne Wiazemsky Jean-Luc Godard (GOD-ar, goh-DAR; French:[ʒɑ̃lykɡɔdaʁ]; 3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. During his early career as a film critic for Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality" and championed Hollywood directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks. In response, he and like-minded critics began to make their own films, challenging the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. Godard first received global acclaim for Breathless (1960), a milestone in the New Wave movement. His work makes use of frequent homages and references to film history, and often expressed his political views; he was an avid reader of existentialism&
In 1950 Godard, with Rivette and Rohmer, founded "Gazette du cinéma", which published five issues between May and November. He wrote a number of articles for the journal, often using the pseudonym "Hans Lucas". After Godard worked on and financed two films by Rivette and Rohmer, Godard's family cut off their financial support in 1951, and he resorted to a Bohemian lifestyle that included stealing food and money when necessary. In January 1952 he began writing film criticism for "Les cahiers du cinéma". Later that year he traveled to North and South America with his father and attempted to make his first film (of which only a tracking shot from a car was ever accomplished).
In 1953 he returned to Paris briefly before securing a job as a construction worker on a dam project in Switzerland. With the money from the job, he made a short film in 1954 about the building of the dam called Operation Concrete (1958). Later that year his mother was killed in a motor scooter accident in Switzerland. In 1956 Godard began writing again for "Les cahiers du cinéma" as well as for the journal "Arts". In 1957 Godard worked as the press attache for "Artistes Associés", and made his first French film, All Boys Are Called Patrick (1959).
In 1958 he shot Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958), his homage Jean-Luc Godard
Born (1930-12-03)3 December 1930 Died 13 September 2022(2022-09-13) (aged 91) Citizenship Occupations Years active 1950–2022 Movement French New Wave Spouses Partner Anne-Marie Miéville (1978–2022; his death) Relatives