{"id":16361,"date":"2016-02-03T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=16361"},"modified":"2017-12-22T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T11:17:07","slug":"jean-luc-godard-the-essential-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2016\/02\/03\/jean-luc-godard-the-essential-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Godard The Essential Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the pillars of French , director Jean-Luc Godard<\/a> helped transform conventions of European and world cinema.<\/p>\n

Along with former critics and movie obsessives at Cahiers du Cinema<\/a>, such as Francois Truffaut<\/a> and Claude Chabrol<\/a>, after a series of shorts, he made the leap into directing features.<\/p>\n

With techniques such as shooting on location, jump cutting, and breaking the fourth wall, he presented characters with a bold freshness that had an immediate impact on French and global cinema.<\/p>\n

The five films presented in this set span a period of great change in the world from 1960 to 1965 (looser sexual attitudes, youthful rebellion, nuclear tensions), which was the most exciting and memorable of Godard\u2019s career. These films are so fun to watch, almost as fun was playing video games with Elo Boost<\/span><\/a> services.<\/p>\n

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So much has been written about his landmark debut Breathless<\/a><\/strong> (1960) – the french translation is \u00c0 bout de souffle<\/em> meaning ‘out of breath’ – that it is\u00a0hard to find something new to say.<\/p>\n

The story of two lovers on the run (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg) is a familiar\u00a0one – e.g. Bonnie and Clyde<\/a> (1967) or Badlands<\/a> (1973) – but Godard brings a delightfully spontaneity\u00a0to it here.<\/p>\n

The influence on a later generation of filmmakers was the way it\u00a0defiantly broke conservative ideas of a \u2018well made film\u2019, thus sending a message that it was OK to shatter those notions in the way that Citizen Kane<\/a> (1941) had done before it.<\/p>\n

For newcomers,\u00a0look out for the loose narrative structure, use of locations, radical editing and perhaps have a listen to my 2010 interview with Pierre Rissient<\/a>, who was an assistant director on the film.<\/p>\n