Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".

Later work

His return to somewhat more traditional fiction was marked with Sauve qui peut (1980), the first of a series of more mainstream films marked by autobiographical currents: for example Passion (1982), Lettre à Freddy Buache (1982), Prénom Carmen (1984), and Grandeur et décadence (1986). There was, though, another flurry of controversy with Marie, Je vous salue (1985), which was banned by the Catholic Church for alleged heresy, and also with King Lear (1987), an extraordinary but much-excoriated essay on Shakespeare and language.

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Sauve qui peut - Passion - 1982 - Lettre à Freddy Buache - Prénom Carmen - 1984 - Grandeur et décadence - 1986 - Marie, Je vous salue - 1985 - King Lear - 1987 - Shakespeare

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His later films have been marked by great formal beauty and frequently a sense of requiem — films such as Nouvelle Vague (1990), the autobiographical JLG/JLG - autoportrait de décembre (1995), and For Ever Mozart (1996). Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991) was a quasi-sequel to Alphaville but done with an elegaic tone and focus on the inevitable decay of age. During the 1990s he also produced perhaps the most important work of his career in the multi-part series Histoires du Cinema, which combined all the innovations of his video work with a passionate engagement in the issues of twentieth-century history and the history of film itself.

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Nouvelle Vague - 1990 - JLG/JLG - autoportrait de décembre - 1995 - Histoires du Cinema

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