Director Jean-Luc Godard, icon of French New Wave cinema, has died at age 91, according to French media.
Associated Press PARIS — Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious"enfant terrible" of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his debut feature"Breathless" and stood for years as one of the world's most vital and provocative directors has died, French media reported. He was 91.
But Godard also made a string of films, often politically charged and experimental, which pleased few outside a small circle of fans and frustrated many critics through their purported overblown intellectualism. After working on two films by Rivette and Rohmer in 1951, Godard tried to direct his first movie while traveling through North and South America with his father, but never finished it.
The movie stars Belmondo as a penniless young thief who models himself on Hollywood movie gangsters and who, after he shoots a police officer, goes on the run to Italy with his American girlfriend, played by Jean Seeberg. Godard also launched what was to be a career-long participation in collective film projects, contributing scenes to"The Seven Deadly Sins" along with directors such as Claude Chabrol and Roger Vadim. He also worked with Ugo Gregoretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Rossellini on the Italian movie"Let's Have a Brainwash," with Godard's scenes portraying a disturbing post-apocalypse world.
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