Jean-Luc Godard, film legend and emblem of the Nouvelle Vague, dies at 91

France mourns this Tuesday, September 13, the loss of one of its most iconic faces. Director Jean-Luc Godard, a world leader in cinema and the Nouvelle Vague, has died at the age of 91.

The death of the director, of Franco-Swiss origin, has been advanced this Tuesday by the French media Liberation. define it as a “total filmmaker with a thousand lives and a work as prolific as it is protean” and they remember that “he leaves behind a career strewn with masterpieces and misunderstandings that made him a living legend”.

Among his titles stands out especially At the end of the escape, starring Jean Paul-Belmondo and Jean Seberg. For this film, released in 1960, the filmmaker was recognized with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. It is a key film in the awakening of the revolutionary Nouvelle Vague movement.

Among his most emblematic titles are other films that have gone down in cinema history such as Live your life (1962), contempt (1963) o Pierrot the mad (1965). In his showcase of recognition we also find the Golden Lion that he won in Venice in 1983, the honorary Oscar that he received in 2010 doing justice to his career and the special Palme d’Or that was awarded to him in 2018. Precisely that year, in Cannes, He starred in one of his last public appearances via videoconference. The picture bookreleased in 2018, was his last film.

Personally, he has been married twice. From 1961 to 1967 with the actress Anna Karina and from 1967 to 1979 with the writer Anne Wiazemsky. The director has no offspring.