Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) was a French-Swiss film director and a leading figure of the French New Wave.

Leading figure of the Nouvelle Vague known for experimental editing (including jump cuts), handheld camera work and formal experimentation. Frequently discussed in the reviews are his collaborations with actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina and Brigitte Bardot, and with cinematographer Raoul Coutard.

DeBaser reviews praise Godard's radical formal innovations and enduring emotional impact. Critics highlight his experimental editing, handheld camera use and thematic focus on boredom, bourgeois life, love and alienation. Performances by Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Brigitte Bardot and Raoul Coutard's cinematography are frequently noted. One review finds Il Disprezzo less fully developed but still visually striking.

For:Cinephiles, students of film, fans of the French New Wave

 There are films that will never age, that even in forty years might be rewatched, sparking the exact same emotions as when they were first released. And "Pierrot le fou" is one of these.

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 "Breathless" film by Jean-Luc Godard, is a tribute to American noir and to Humphrey Bogart, the classic icon of the genre, but it is also an ironic farewell to that way of making cinema and to the gangster figure as it had been portrayed until then, no longer tough and winning, but a loser with neither art nor part.

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 That something more is Anna Karina.

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 "So do you love me completely? Completely, tenderly, and tragically."

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