Jean-Luc Godard, Filmmaker Who Revolutionized Cinema With French New Wave, Dies by Assisted Suicide
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French film director Jean-Luc Godard, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has died of assisted suicide in Switzerland. The 91-year-olds legal adviser, Patrick Jeanneret,
confirmed the news to
The New York Times, saying he had suffered from multiple disabling pathologies. He could not live like you and me, so he decided with a great lucidity, as he had all his life, to say, Now, its enough, Jeanneret was quoted saying.
The
Libération newspaper, citing Godards wife and producers, reported that he died at his home in Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal. He was not sick, he was simply exhausted, the paper cited a relative as saying.
Godard, known for films like
Breathless,
Alphaville, and
Contempt, was a revolutionary force in filmmaking, often pushing boundaries and helping to create a whole new generation of filmmakers after he shot to fame in the 1960s, injecting pop culture into dialogues and inspiring future directors like Quentin Tarantino.
His most recent film,
The Image Book, won the the special Palme dOr prize at Cannes in 2018. Former French Culture Minister Jack Lang, in comments to France Info radio on Tuesday, called Godard absolutely unique, saying, He wasnt just cinema, he was philosophy, poetry.
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