Jean-Luc Godard, the enfant terrible of French cinema has a rich and rewarding body of work.
Film auteur Jean Luc-Godard, perhaps the biggest name of the French New Wave, has sadly passed away at the age of 91. He was the last living director of the French New Wave, which also included directors such as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, and Éric Rohmer. Godard is survived by his long-time partner, the Swiss filmmaker, Anne-Marie Miéville. Godard was formerly married to his frequent collaborator, actress Anna Karina.
Band of Outsiders Christening himself “Jean-Luc ‘Cinema’ Godard” in the opening credits, the French filmmaker showcases a bag of stylistic tricks in Band of Outsiders. In what is one of his most iconic and influential pictures, Godard follows a couple of film-obsessed slackers as they include a young woman in their plans to commit a robbery. What could have otherwise been a straight-laced caper became a cool-as-hell romp through Parisian streets with three hip youngsters.
Pierrot Le Fou In the spirit of his previous multi-genre pictures, Godard creates an infectiously charming film with Pierrot Le Fou. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina star as a pair of star-crossed lovers who lam it after a series of unfavorable encounters with arms dealers. High-brow culture is mashed against the low-brow, and cartoons and Laurel and Hardy routines find a spot next to the fine art of Diego Velázquez.
Weekend Weekend is a chaotic drive through an anarchic vision of 1967 France, in which a bourgeoise couple hoping to secure an inheritance from a dying patriarch. In what is one of Godard’s most unapologetically fierce films, the narrative descends into utter insanity. Real mixes with the surreal as the journey becomes increasingly fantastical. Characters from other works of literature appear and disappear seemingly at random.
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