Jean-Luc Godard, a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic, lived from 3 December 1930 to 13 September 2022.
Jean-Luc became well-known as a founder of the French New Wave film movement in the 1960s, and many consider him to be the most significant post-war French director.
Jean-Lucs work “revolutionized the motion picture form,” in the words of AllMovie, with its experiments with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork.
The son of Odile (née Monod) and Swiss doctor Paul Godard, Jean-Luc Godard was born on 3 December 1930[13] in Paris's 7th arrondissement.
His mother was a descendant of Banque Paribas founder Julien Monod, and his parents were affluent Protestants of Franco-Swiss ancestry. She was the theologian Adolphe Monod's great-granddaughter.
His mother's side also includes composer Jacques-Louis Monod, naturalist Théodore Monod, preacher Frédéric Monod, and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former Peruvian prime minister who eventually became president.
When Jean-Luc was four years old, his father relocated the family to Switzerland.
Godard was in France at the start of the Second World War and struggled to get back to Switzerland.
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