Jean-Luc Godard stood for years as one of the most vital and provocative directors in Europe and beyond — beginning in 1960 with his debut feature “Breathless.”
in 1960 with his debut feature "Breathless" and stood for years as one of the world’s most vital and provocative directors has died. 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, who was later to gain a reputation for his uncompromising left-wing political views, had a brush with French authorities in 1960 when he made "The Little Soldier." The movie, filled with references to France’s colonial war in Algeria, was not released until 1963, a year after the conflict ended.
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