On September 13, according to French media sources, the famous French film director Jean-Luc Godard died at the age of 91.
Jean-Luc Godard is one of the founders of French New Wave cinema, whose representative works include "Do Whatever You Want", "Alpha City", "Pierrot the Madman", "Carmen", "Exhausted" and so on.
Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss director. He was one of the founders of French New Wave cinema. Godard's parents are French and Swiss. He was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, then attended high school in France and then at the University of Paris. He developed an interest in cinema during his days at the Sorbonne, and for several years after graduation he worked with young filmmakers and critics to promote the New Wave of French cinema.
Godard's films are often seen as challenging and countering the filming and narrative style of Hollywood films. He also injected his thoughts and extensive knowledge of the history of cinema into his films.
At present, the "Five Tigers of the New Wave" - Truffaut (1984), Chablow (2010), Houmai (2010), Levitte (2016), and Godard (2022) have all passed away. This announcement began with the French New Wave in the 1950s and came to an end.
In 1960, Godard directed his first film, Exhausted, which led to his career as a director, for which he won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1962, he won the Special Jury Prize in the main competition unit of the 27th Venice International Film Festival for the feature film "Do Whatever You Want". In 1965, he directed the crime film Pierrot the Madman, which won the Golden Lion Award in the main competition unit of the 30th Venice International Film Festival. In 1980, he directed the feature film "Everybody for Himself", which was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section of the 33rd Cannes International Film Festival.
Langrovar, former director of the French Film Archive, praised him, dividing contemporary cinema into "before Godard" and "after Godard".
Godard's innovation of French cinema and even world cinema is the most classic is the extreme jumping cut editing used in his debut film "Exhausted", the narrative is incoherent, and it is even considered by most people to be the most unique aesthetic style of the New Wave. French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville once said: "There is no specific style in the New Wave. If the New Wave did have a certain style, it was Godard's. ”
In the Chinese director world we are familiar with, there is a person who can be said to have learned Godard's jump cutting editing to the fullest, and this person is Wong Kar-wai.
It has been commented that Wong Kar-wai was Godard's loyal "apprentice". Wong Kar-wai's favorite film is Also Godard's New Wave masterpiece "Exhausted", and his "Chongqing Forest" is often compared with "Exhausted" by Western media and film critics.
The footless bird in "The Legend of Ah Fei" is taken from a line from Godard's "Outlaws".
And director Jia Zhangke also posted a tribute: the film is the truth of 24 frames per second.
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Editor: Xu Luming