Jean-Luc Godard, French cinema legend, dies age 91

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French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard – a key determine within the Nouvelle Imprecise, the film-making motion that revolutionized cinema within the late Fifties and 60s – has died aged 91, French media is reporting.

French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted a tribute to the director, writing the nation has misplaced a “nationwide treasure.”

“It was like an apparition in French cinema,” Macron tweeted. “Then he turned one in all its masters. Jean-Luc Godard, essentially the most iconoclastic of New Wave administrators, had invented a resolutely fashionable, intensely free artwork. We lose a nationwide treasure, a genius outlook.”

Godard’s first function movie, “À bout de souffle” (“Breathless”) in 1960, was a celebration of the nonchalant improvisational cinematography that turned synonymous along with his model.

Within the years that adopted, his movies revolved round complicated points reminiscent of fickleness, indignity and caprice.

Amongst his notable later works had been his “trilogy of the elegant,” which consisted of three movies that explored femininity, nature and faith – 1982’s “Ardour,” the next yr’s “Prénom Carmen” (“First Title: Carmen”) and “Je vous salue, Marie” (“Hail Mary”) in 1985.

Throughout his lengthy profession, Godard was awarded an honorary César in 1987 and 1998, and acquired an honorary Academy Award in 2010.

French newspaper Liberation was the primary to report Godard’s loss of life.

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