FILM DIRECTOR

Jean-Luc Godard

1930 - 2022

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Jean-Luc Godard (UK: GOD-ar, US: goh-DAR; French: [ʒɑ̃ lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; 3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Luc Godard has received more than 5,444,596 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Jean-Luc Godard is the 21st most popular film director (down from 17th in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from France (down from 183rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Film Director.

Jean-Luc Godard is most famous for his innovative and influential filmmaking style, which includes the use of jump cuts, hand-held cameras, and natural lighting.

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  • 74

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  • 9.05

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  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 21 out of 2,041. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky, Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, Luchino Visconti, François Truffaut, and Sergio Leone. After him are Pedro Almodóvar, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Agnès Varda, Georges Méliès, and Michelangelo Antonioni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 12. Before him are Helmut Kohl, Warren Buffett, Pierre Bourdieu, George Soros, Jacques Derrida, and Ray Charles. After him are Mobutu Sese Seko, Hafez al-Assad, Baudouin of Belgium, Steve McQueen, Buzz Aldrin, and Salvatore Riina. Among people deceased in 2022, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 6. Before him are Elizabeth II, Pelé, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope Benedict XVI, and Jiang Zemin. After him are Vangelis, Shinzō Abe, Luc Montagnier, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 207 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles the Bold (1433), François Truffaut (1932), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Letizia Ramolino (1750), Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), and Jean Marais (1913). After him are Roland Barthes (1915), Margaret of Valois (1553), Charles IV of France (1294), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), and Pope Clement IV (1190).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean-Luc Godard ranks 3. Before him are Roman Polanski (1933), and François Truffaut (1932). After him are Georges Méliès (1861), Roger Vadim (1928), Luc Besson (1959), Jacques Tati (1907), Claude Chabrol (1930), Éric Rohmer (1920), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Alain Resnais (1922), and William Wyler (1902).

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Filmography

Breathless
Director
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Mar 16th 19607.5 / 10
Pierrot le Fou
Director
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Nov 5th 19657.387 / 10
Contempt
Director
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
Oct 29th 19637.063 / 10