His elder sister Rachel encouraged him to paint, which he did, in an abstract style. He spent time in Geneva also with a group that included another film fanatic, Roland Tolmatchoff, and the extreme rightist philosopher Jean Parvulesco. He studied in Lausanne and lived with his parents, whose marriage was breaking up. Having failed his baccalaureate exam in 1948 he returned to Switzerland.
He lodged with the writer Jean Schlumberger. In 1946, he went to study at the Lycée Buffon in Paris and, through family connections, mixed with members of its cultural elite. Not a frequent cinema-goer, he attributed his introduction to cinema to a reading of André Malraux's essay Outline of a Psychology of Cinema, and his reading of La Revue du cinéma, which was relaunched in 1946. Godard attended school in Nyon, Switzerland. He spent most of the war in Switzerland, although his family made clandestine trips to his grandfather's estate on the French side of Lake Geneva. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Godard was in France, and returned to Switzerland with difficulty. Four years after Jean-Luc's birth, his father moved the family to Switzerland. Other relatives on his mother's side include composer Jacques-Louis Monod, naturalist Théodore Monod and pastor Frédéric Monod. She was the great-granddaughter of theologian Adolphe Monod. His wealthy parents came from Protestant families of Franco–Swiss descent, and his mother was the daughter of Julien Monod, a founder of the Banque Paribas. Jean-Luc Godard was born on 3 December 1930 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Odile ( née Monod) and Paul Godard, a Swiss physician. His collaborations with Karina-which included such critically acclaimed films as Vivre sa vie (1962), Bande à part (1964) and Pierrot le Fou (1965)-were called "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema" by Filmmaker magazine. He has been married twice, to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky, both of whom starred in several of his films.
Pennebaker, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Godard's films have inspired many directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh, D. He is said to have "created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century." He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have "challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticism's vocabulary." In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award, but did not attend the award ceremony. In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics' top ten directors of all time (which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted). Since the New Wave, his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective. His work makes use of frequent homages and references to film history, and often expressed his political views he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. Godard first received global acclaim for his 1960 feature Breathless, helping to establish the New Wave movement. In response, he and like-minded critics began to make their own films, challenging the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. ĭuring his early career as a film critic for the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which emphasized established convention over innovation and experimentation. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement, and is arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. Jean-Luc Godard ( UK: / ˈ ɡ ɒ d ɑːr/ GOD-ar, US: / ɡ oʊ ˈ d ɑːr/ goh- DAR French: born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.