Jean-Luc Godard

Director Jean-Luc Godard Godard rose to prominence as the French New Wave film movement pioneer back in the ’60s. At the time, he was the most influential filmmaker of the era. Godard’s work included revolutionizing the motion picture form by experimenting with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. His early career as a film critic has birthed in him the weight to change cinema production.

As a result, he was moved to make his own films, challenging the Hollywood traditions other than the French cinema. His critically-acclaimed 1960 French crime drama Breathless helped him achieve that and established the New Wave movement. In fact, the director’s films inspired the works of many of the great contemporaries we know today, such as Quentin Tarantino, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Like gas that fuels these filmmakers’ passion for the movies, Godard has inspired and greatly influenced how movies are made today.