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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss director and screenwriter known as one of the founding participants in the French New Wave. He is known for his radical and experimental approach to filmmaking, an existentialist philosophical bent, and his direction of visually-beautiful and innovative French films.

Godard was born in Paris to a wealthy family, and was raised in Switzerland. His introduction to film came not from seeing an actual film, but from reading an essay by Malraux, Outline of a...

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Jean-Luc Godard Essays

Discuss Le Mépris in detail in terms of David Bordwell’s analysis of the elements that characterise art cinema. Maisy Jessie Jacobs College

Breathless

Art cinema is a highly contested term that is often associated with ‘taste’ and ‘decorum’ in contrast to more classical cinema (Neale, 2002, p103). The films associated with this mode owe their routes to a variety of artistic movements such as the...

Domination Despite Liberation in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” Lily Gross College

Breathless

The Liberation of France offered a new freedom that French New Wave cinema aims to exemplify through the casual nature of polyamory and female characters that are unconstrained by traditional morality or bounds of marital pressure. Jean-Luc Godard...