Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on 3 December 1930, the son of a Swiss doctor and of a mother from a wealthy Protestant family of bankers. He spent his childhood in Nyon, on the shore of Lake Geneva, then studied ethnology at the Sorbonne. He wrote for Cahiers du cinéma from the early fifties and worked for a time for Swiss television, in Zurich, before moving into directing. He died on 13 September 2022, aged eighty-one.

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• CinemaBreathlessÀ bout de souffleJean-Luc Godard · 1960Cinema