Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a Franco-Swiss filmmaker and a leading member of the "French New Wave”. Known for stylistic innovations that challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, he is universally recognized as the most audacious, radical, as well as the most influential of the Nouvelle Vague filmmakers. His work reflects a fervent knowledge of film history, a comprehensive understanding of existential and Marxist philosophy, and a profound insight into the fragility of human relationships.
ocasional contributor to Cashiers du cinema (founded in 1951 by Bazin and Doniol-Valcroze) writing under the pseudonim Hans Lucas
'cinema was not the world itself mgically appearing on a screen in the form of an image...it was bits of stuff, celluloid and magnetic tape, on which real things hadleft their stamp but which now needed to be patched together as the filmaker desired' 1
Godard is as revolutionary and influential a hinge-figure in cinema as Joyce was to literature and the cubists were to painting. He saw a rule and broke it. Every day, in every movie. Incorporating what professionals thought of as mistakes (jump-cuts were only the most famous instance), mixing high culture and low without snobbish distinctions, demolishing the fourth wall between viewing himself as a maker of fictional documentaries, essay movies, and viewing his movies as an inseparable extension of his pioneering work as a film critic for Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s.
Breathless:
Car scene conversation-discontinuous editing, no reaction shot, the audience is aware they are watching a movie as jump cuts are contrasting 2 pieces of footage not complimenting it.
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