Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave.
Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's Tradition of Quality, which emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation. To challenge this tradition, he and like-minded critics started to make th...
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