Jean-Luc Godard, French director pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, dies at 91

French director Jean-Luc Godard died on Tuesday (13) at the age of 91. Second wife, Anne-Marie Mieville, the pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague died in her home, surrounded by loved ones. The cause of her death has not been announced.

The French director is one of the founders of the Nouvelle Vague, one of the most renowned movements in world cinema, created in France around 1950, bringing new aesthetic paradigms to film productions around the world.

Among the main features of the movement created by Jean-Luc Godard are the sharp cuts, the existential dialogue and the cameras in hand, things that have influenced many other directors over the decades.

French President Emmanuel Macron mourned the director’s death. “Jean Luc-Godard was the most iconoclastic of the directors of the Nouvelle Vague. He invented a decidedly modern and intensely free art. We have lost a national treasure and a genius, “he said.

In his 70-year career, the director has made more than 40 feature films, as well as several short films, experimental documentaries, film essays and music videos.

Among his main works are:

Jean-Luc Godard began his career as a film critic and has won numerous awards, including Bears in Berlin, Lions in Venice, Caesar in France and even an Oscar. In 2014 he won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for “Farewell to Language”.

In 2018, the director competed for the Palme d’Or for ‘Image and Word’ in Cannes, a reflection on cinema and the world.

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