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Jean-Luc Godard: Master of French cinema who pushed boundaries

At his best, the Franco-Swiss film director and Young Turk of the New Wave was responsible for some of the most sublime moments of 1960s screen time

The Independent UK

Jean-Luc Godard’s films teach us to demand more from the lives we’re given

The work of the French-Swiss director, who died this week, is playful – but deadly serious about what life is for, says author Lynsey Hanley

The Guardian - UK

Final cut: Looking back at Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic genius

The kinetic, experimental style of films like "Breathless" and "Pierrot le Fou" saw Jean-Luc Godard crowned among the leading lights of the French New Wave. Following the Franco-Swiss filmmaker's death at 91, Lisa Nesselson tells us how Godard's formal innovations revolutionised European cinema, bringing Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Anna Karina…

France 24

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Jean-Luc Godard, director of ‘Breathless,’ dies at 91

The iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave revolutionized popular cinema starting in 1960. A family statement gave assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland where the filmmaker resided, as the cause of his death.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jean-Luc Godard, deeply influential French New Wave filmmaker, dies at 91

Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic expression in the 1960s with films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend” and became a guiding light to fellow filmmakers throughout his more than six-decade career, has died. He was 91.

Los Angeles Times

Jean-Luc Godard obituary

New Wave film-maker who changed the course of cinema with À Bout de Souffle

The Guardian - UK

Jean-Luc Godard death: French New Wave director dies aged 91

‘Breathless’ and ‘Alphaville’ were among his best-known films

The Independent UK

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Jean-Luc Godard dead: Director who inspired Quentin Tarantino dies at 91

The French-Swiss director was famous for his New Wave movies, including Breathless, My Life to Live and Contempt

Daily Mirror

Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French New Wave, dies at 91

The radical director of Breathless and Alphaville, and who was a key figure in the French Nouvelle Vague, has died

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