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Jean-Luc Godard
Cinema’s perpetual provocateur has been inciting audiences for over half a century. From his early shorts to his most recent feature, we chart the advances of film's most enduring revolutionary.
Here you’ll find examples from the many milestones of his career, from the daring insouciance of Breathless to the discursive complexity of his 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema, and the playful poetry of his 2014 critical comeback, Goodbye to Language.
Le Mépris Le Mépris
Drama 1963 103 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard conducts an autopsy of love and the creative process, as a boorish film producer dismantles a seemingly strong marriage.
British Sounds British Sounds
Documentary 1969 51 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society, in this experimental documentary.
Vivre sa vie Vivre sa vie
Drama 1962 83 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Anna Karina shines in Jean-Luc Godard’s critically acclaimed account of a Parisian woman's slow descent into prostitution.
Film socialisme Film socialisme
Animation & Artists Moving Image 2010 97 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard’s acerbic and disorienting essay on the decline of Western civilisation, shot aboard the famously grounded cruise ship, the Costa Concordia.
Vladimir and Rosa Vladimir and Rosa
1970 96 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
Godard recreates the trial of the Chicago Eight (charged with protesting the 1968 Democratic Party convention) in typically playful, anarchic and confrontational style.
Une Histoire d'eau Une Histoire d'eau
Drama 1958 12 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut
Truffaut’s romantic fable is reworked by Jean-Luc Godard in this early short by two giants of the French New Wave.
Breathless [À bout de souffle] Breathless [À bout de souffle]
Film noir 1960 90 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary debut feature, an insouciant and iconoclastic crime film that paved the way for the French New Wave.
A Century of French Cinema A Century of French Cinema
Documentary 1995 50 mins Director: Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard
Six regions, six films appraised for cultural and historical meaning. Produced by Jean-Luc Godard.
Two in the Wave Two in the Wave
Documentary 2009 92 mins Director: Emmanuel Laurent
Jean Luc-Godard and Francois Truffaut: the story of a friendship, a break-up and the birth of a new cinematic movement that would sweep the world.
Charlotte et son Jules Charlotte et son Jules
Drama 1958 13 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard’s playful early homage to Jean Cocteau, featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick
Drama 1957 20 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Godard sowed the seeds for the French New Wave with this early short, scripted by Eric Rohmer.
Struggle in Italy Struggle in Italy
Drama 1969 60 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
Godard's case study of an Italian girl's inner struggle to reconcile her revolutionary intent with her ingrained bourgeois tendencies.
Wind from the East Wind from the East
Drama 1969 93 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin's radical film deconstructs both a factory strike and the Hollywood western - simultaneously.
A Film Like Any Other A Film Like Any Other
Documentary 1968 107 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard
The first film in Jean-Luc Godard's 'radical' period finds the director rejecting established notions of narrative and authorship to present a dialectic response to the events of May '68.
Bande à part Bande à part
Crime 1964 95 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Godard's playful tribute to the Hollywood pulp crime movies of the 1940s, executed with typically Gallic cool.
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