Jean-Luc Godard, dubbed the godfather of France’s New Wave cinema, has died aged 91.
The newspaper Liberation reports that people close to the Franco-Swiss director have confirmed his death today (September 13).
The filmmaker is known for classics including Breathless (1960) and Contempt (1963), which pushed cinematic boundaries.
Godard’s films showcased handheld camera work, jump cuts and existential dialogue that revolutionised French cinema and filmmaking in the 1960s.
As Reuters writes, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is often cited as one of a more recent generation of pioneering directors, initiated by Godard and his Paris-based contemporaries.
Godard was born into a Franco-Swiss family on December 3, 1930 in Paris’s plush Seventh Arrondissement.
His father was a doctor, his mother the daughter of a Swiss man who founded Banque Paribas, then an illustrious investment bank.
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