Jean-Luc Godard was born on the 3rd of December 1930 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. His father Paul Godard worked as a Swiss physician while his mother Odile came from a wealthy Protestant family with deep roots in banking and theology.
Jean-Luc Godard released Breathless in 1960 starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. The film distinctly expressed the French New Wave style through innovative techniques such as jump cuts which were traditionally considered amateurish.
Jean-Pierre Gorin collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard between 1968 and 1973 to make five films with strong Maoist messages. The small group adopted the name Dziga Vertov Group named after a Soviet filmmaker known for radical documentaries titled Kino Pravda meaning film truth.
Jean-Luc Godard lived in Rolle Switzerland from 1978 onwards where he was described by former wife Anna Karina as a recluse. He died on the 13th of September 2022 at his home in Rolle Switzerland.
Goodbye to Language won the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival while Le livre d'image premiered May 2018 receiving Special Palme d'Or at Cannes before wider release November that year.