Born in Paris in 1930, Godard was a critic at Cahiers du cinéma before directing Breathless, one of the defining films of the French New Wave. He broke the rules of editing and storytelling, and his later work became more political and experimental.
Filmography
- Breathless (1960)
- Vivre sa vie (1962)
- Contempt (1963)
- Le Petit Soldat (1963)
- Band of Outsiders (1964)
- Pierrot le Fou (1965)
- Alphaville (1965)
- Masculin Féminin (1966)
- Weekend (1967)
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
- La Chinoise (1967)
- Every Man for Himself (1980)
- Prénom Carmen (1983)
- Goodbye to Language (2014)
- The Image Book (2018)