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Jean-Luc Godard
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Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Editor Born: December 3, 1930 in Paris, France Biography:The lynchpin of the French New Wave, "Jean-Luc Godard" was arguably the most influential filmmaker of the postwar era. Beginning with his groundbreaking 1959 feature debut "A Bout de Souffle", Godard revolutionized the motion picture form, freeing the medium from the shackles of its long-accepted cinematic language by rewriting the rules of narrative, continuity, sound, and camera work. Later in his career, he also challenged the common means of feature production, distribution, and exhibition, all in an effort to subvert the conventions of the Hollywood formula to create a new kind of film.
Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children. After receiving his primary education in Nyon, Switzerland -- during World War II, he became a naturalized Swiss citizen -- he studied ethnology at the Sorbonne, but spent the vast majority of his days at the Cine-Club du Quartier Latin,... Full Biography
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