BREAKING: Director Jean-Luc Godard, icon of French New Wave cinema, has died at age 91, according to media in France.
He became friends with future big-name directors Francois Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer and in 1950 founded the shortlived Gazette du Cinema. By 1952 he had begun writing for the prestigious movie magazine Cahiers du Cinema.
Returning to Paris, Godard worked as spokesman for an artists’ agency and made his first feature in 1957 — “All Boys Are Called Patrick,” released in 1959 — and continued to hone his writing. He spiced it all up with references to Hollywood gangster movies, and nods to literature and visual art. His work turned more starkly political by the late 1960s. In “Week End,” his characters lampoon the hypocrisy of bourgeois society even as they demonstrate the comic futility of violent class war. It came out a year before popular anger at the establishment shook France, culminating in the iconic but short-lived student unrests of May 1968.Godard harbored a life-long sympathy for various forms of socialism depicted in films ranging from the early 1970s to early 1990s.
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