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The rebel who revolutionised filmmaking
Jean-Luc Godard: December 3 1930 - September 13 2022
Jean Luc Godard directing Masculin, Feminin with Catherine Duport (left) and Jean Pierre Leaud
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Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
JEAN-LUC GODARD, born in Paris on December 3 1930, died last week in Switzerland, taking his own life. He was the son of Odile and Paul Godard. His wealthy parents came from Protestant families of Franco–Swiss descent.
He was to become the enfant terrible of French cinema and one of the founders of the 1960s Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), that ushered in a whole new, revolutionary approach to film-making.
He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. He and a number of like-minded film-makers revolutionised the motion picture form through experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound and camerawork. During his lifetime he made over 100 films – a formidable output.
He began his career as a film critic for the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinema. He criticised mainstream French cinema and established conventions over innovation and experimentation. In response, he and like-minded cinema afficionados like Rivette, Chabrol, Truffaut, Agnes Varda and Chis Marker, began to make their own films challenging the traditional conventions and Hollywood escapism.
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