Jean-Luc Godard, the iconoclastic and stylistically adventurous filmmaking giant who rose to prominence as part of the French New Wave movement in the 1960s, has died.
He was 91.
Godard’s death was confirmed by French President Emmanuel Macron, who praised the director for having “invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art.”
“We are losing a national treasure, a look of genius,” Macron wrote on Twitter.
The radical filmmaker upended conventions with art-house classics like “Breathless” and “Alphaville.”
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