Jean-Luc Godard: The legendary filmmaker dies at 91 by assisted suicide
Jean-Luc Godard: The legendary filmmaker dies at 91 by assisted suicide
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Director Jean-Luc Godard, who helmed the The revolutionary new wave of French cinema has died at 91.
Godard burst onto the scene with 1960s Breathless, which launched a acclaimed film series of releases that rewrote the rules of cinema and influenced directors from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino.
A family representative says that he died by assisted suicide in Switzerland.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Godard "had the vision of a genius".
< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">In a tribute on Twitter, Mr Macron wrote: "He was like an appearance in French cinema. Then he became its master.
"Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, invented a resolutely modern art, intensely free We have lost a national treasure, a man who had the vision of a genius maker "requested legal aid in Switzerland for voluntary departure because he was suffering from 'multiple disabling illnesses', according to the report medical".
Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland under certain circumstances.
Nine things about the man who changed cinemaIn pictures: The life and the films of Jean-Luc GodardBBC Arts: Anna Karina on Jean-Luc Godard
Godard started out as a film critic before going behind the c...
Director Jean-Luc Godard, who helmed the The revolutionary new wave of French cinema has died at 91.
Godard burst onto the scene with 1960s Breathless, which launched a acclaimed film series of releases that rewrote the rules of cinema and influenced directors from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino.
A family representative says that he died by assisted suicide in Switzerland.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Godard "had the vision of a genius".
< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">In a tribute on Twitter, Mr Macron wrote: "He was like an appearance in French cinema. Then he became its master.
"Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, invented a resolutely modern art, intensely free We have lost a national treasure, a man who had the vision of a genius maker "requested legal aid in Switzerland for voluntary departure because he was suffering from 'multiple disabling illnesses', according to the report medical".
Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland under certain circumstances.
Nine things about the man who changed cinemaIn pictures: The life and the films of Jean-Luc GodardBBC Arts: Anna Karina on Jean-Luc Godard
Godard started out as a film critic before going behind the c...
Image source, Reuters
