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Sensitive to the debates and discontents of 1960s France, he took storylines from the American genre films and used them as frames on which to attach glimpses of a changing France, satirical sketches, adverts, and quotations.

Tired of the fawning chat around the passing of Jean-Luc Godard? Euronews Cultures Film of the Week is Le Cerveau (The Brain), the perfect antidote, starring one of Godards regular contributors, the late great Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring Viola Davis, "The Woman King" tells the rousing story of the female warriors of the African kingdom of Dahomey.

Godard, who has died aged 91, was the legendary French New Wave director who dared film culture to keep up with his dazzling, era-defining reinventions of the medium.

Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic expression in the 1960s with films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend” and continued to explore the language of film throughout his more than five-decade career, died.

“Art today is Jean-Luc Godard,” the French poet Louis Aragon wrote in 1965. “Godard is not satisfied with the world as it is, he remakes it in his own manner . . . in Pierrot le fou red sings like an obsession.” It would again, decades later, in The Image Book. Godard has long been one of the few who believe that color is not a given, that it is a craft like any other. If his movies—the ones with Belmondo, with Gorin, with Miéville—have staying power, it is because he never complete...

God of Cinema is never of the past, says filmmaker Amartya Bhattacharyya, even the Indian New Wave Cinema has a lot of elements of Godard

Remembering cinema's eternal, loving revolutionary

According to an official statement from his legal advisor, the legendary director died by assisted suicide after suffering from multiple disabling pathologies.

France has lost "a national treasure," said French President Emmanuel Macron. Godard was one of the most influential film directors and was often credited with revolutionizing cinema.