The Franco-Swiss director dies at the age of 91 in Switzerland, where the procedure is allowed
Director Jean-Luc Godard, died this Tuesday, 91, has opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland, where the procedure is allowed. According to family members, Godard “wasn’t sick, he was just exhausted”.
Relatives told the newspaper publication that “this was his decision, and it was important to him that she was known”. Other people close to the director also confirmed the information to the French newspaper.
An icon of modern cinema, Godard died in his home in Rolle, on the shores of Lake Geneva, in the French-speaking region of Switzerland. Assisted suicide has been allowed in the country since 1942 and consists of taking one’s own life, usually through the ingestion of lethal drugs, under medical supervision. In Brazil, the act is considered a crime.
Always active in the film industry until the last years of his life, Godard had already explained that he could resort to assisted suicide. “If I’m too sick, I don’t feel like it
no one being dragged around in a wheelbarrow, “he said in a 2014 interview.
Inheritance
On Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the director. “Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of the filmmakers of the Nouvelle Vague, has invented a decidedly modern and intensely free art. We have lost a national treasure, a look of genius,” he said.
Author of dozens of films in almost seven decades of his career, including “Besieged”, “Contempt” and “The Eleven O’clock Demon”, the Franco-Swiss director was one of the leaders of the French Nouvelle Vague movement revolutionized cinema.
Source: Terra
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