Godard

[goh-dahrd, -dahr, gaw-dar]

noun

1. Benjamin Louis Paul 1849–95, French violinist and composer.

2. Jean-Luc 1930–2022, French filmmaker.

Godard

/ ɡɔdar /

noun

1. Jean-Luc (ʒɑ̃lyk). born 1930, French film director and writer associated with the New Wave of the 1960s. His works include À bout de souffle (1960), Weekend (1967), Sauve qui peut (1980), Nouvelle Vague (1990), and Éloge de l'amour (2003)

Example Sentences

In its closing chapter, Godard’s signature sunglasses catch a reflection of his own iconic film — an amateur is now the auteur.

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It captures the swagger, charisma and impulsiveness with which Godard convinced financial backers and Hollywood starlet Jean Seberg to make a debut feature that had neither a script nor a workable filming schedule.

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Sly, wry, adorable and deplorable, Guillaume Marbeck is priceless as the endlessly irritating and yet frustratingly charismatic Godard in one of the year’s brightest pictures, a rare standout in a sea of multiplex mediocrity.

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It’s the origin story of Godard, and, in a way, of himself.

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The film revolutionized the structure and grammar of modern cinema as surely as Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” had a decade earlier, and as Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” would a decade later.

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