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Godard’s body of work is peculiar in that, at the time of his death, it could be argued that he had not directed a genuinely significant work in half a century.

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.

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.

The French news outlet Liberation, citing an unnamed family member, said Godard died by assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland.

Seeing and speaking: No Master Territories, a new exhibit by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, grapples with both the omissions and the abundances of feminist nonfiction filmmaking