The world of international cinema is mourning the death of the great Franco-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard: he was 91 years old
the world of European and world cinema have recently learned the news of the disappearance of Jean-Luc Godard. The director, born in Paris, raised in Geneva and trained in the film world again in France, passed away yesterday, Tuesday 13 September, at his home in Rolle, Switzerland. Countless awards and recognitions received over a very long and successful career.
To confirm the death of the famous Franco-Swiss director, the transalpine newspaper Libération. Sources close to the artist confirmed that Godard decided of his own free will to proceed with the assisted suicide. “He was fine, he was just exhausted“, The source said.
The first approach to the world of the seventh art takes place in the early 50s, when it stands out as excellent critic. Reviews of him appeared in well-known such magazines, such as Arts And Cahiers du cinéma.
After a few trips, he starts working as a director of short films. The first feature film arrives in 1959. The title is Until the last breathwas shot in just 4 weeks on a tight budget and became something of a manifesto for the movement Nouvelle Vague.
Countless films he directed in the following years. Jobs in which he has collaborated with cinema greats French and world-wide, such as François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Humphrey Bogart, Brigitte Bardot, Jean Paul Belmondo and many others.
It was inspired by movie greats and inspired in turn the directors who came after him. One above all, Quentin Tarantino, a great admirer of him, who called his production company to honor him Bands à partas one of the first films directed by Godard.
The awards for Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard has received throughout his career many prizes and awards.
Dozens of nominations for the various film festivals of Venice, Cannes and Berlin. As many awards won, both for his works, for his career or honorary.
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In 2011, he also received an Academy Award at the career. The Hollywood Academy justified the award: “For the passion. For comparison. For a new kind of cinema“.
On that occasion he didn’t show up to withdraw the statuette, having retired from the scene a few years earlier.
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