Jean-Luc Godard: born in 1930 in Paris, of Swiss nationality, Jean-Luc Godard did not realize 30 years old when his first feature film, A BOUT DE SOUFFLE . At the time, he is known as one of the critics of Cahiers du Cinema ". His first attempt is not a masterpiece but a masterpiece!
The 60s, "New Wave" forces, will be the years GODARD. Of course, A BOUT DE BREATH shocked, more for cinematic reasons than for anything else. Is that the way to film Godardest simply revolutionary. It turns film on film, including two other cult films, DISREGARD THE (1963) and PIERROT LE FOU- (1965). After landing, he divorced Anna Karina, his favorite actress whom he married four years earlier.
Other films of this period remain in memory: THE LITTLE SOLDIER (1960), "A WOMAN IS A WOMAN "(1960), THE CARABINIERS (1963)," ALPHAVILLE "(1965)," Masculine-Feminine "(1966)," TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW OF IT "(1967)," THE CHINESE "(1967)," ONE PLUS ONE "(1969) . It became politicized ( MADE IN USA , 1966) and regularly denounces in his films of the Vietnam War that never ends.
The 70s will always be as prolific but less accessible "to the general public. Laprovocation Godard and his taste for experimentation imprison its author in relative isolation and in so-called "Cinema of intervention". Yet, he won a real public success with "WHO CAN SAVE (LIFE)" in 1979. This indicates a new beginning, embodied by "Passion" (1982), " NAME CARMEN" (1983), "Hail Mary" (1984) with which he shows that he knows still cause a scandal (Mary basketball, Joseph taxi driver), "DETECTIVE" (1985), "New Wave" (1989), "GERMANY NINE ZERO (1990)," Alas for ME "(1993)," JLG / JLG (95), "HISTORY (S) OF CINEMA" (95), "Forever Mozart" (96). In 2001 , it has "PRAISE OF LOVE" at the 54th Cannes Film Festival.
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