Jean Luc Godard Research Paper

Accompanying with three films indeed marked a new beginning in French cinema and then in the wold, The 400 Blows By Truffaut and Breathless by Godard, as well Hiroshima, mon amour (1952) by Alian Resnais. I will try to explain part of this movement in cinema and what made it so famous. The main person in this amazing movement is Jean-Luc Godard who he is a French-Swiss film director, known for his prominence in the New Wave film movement in France during the 1950s and 1960s. In this report I will try to bring some short informations, facts and thoughts by other sources from history of cinema to present reders of this articleinterest and also giving them some idea about this powerful movement in history of cinema in the world and especially after War World 2. According to Robert Sklar in his book An International History of the Medium said: “As it turned out, the strongest response to Hollywood‘s challenge during the 1930s came from French. In one sense, French‘s leading role was obvious; in another, paradoxically, surprising”. (Film. Robert Sklar. P.235) …show more content…
His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of Switzerland and attended school in Nyons (Switzerland). His parents divorced in 1948, at which time he returned to Paris to attend the Lycée Rohmer. In 1949 he studied at the Sorbonne to prepare for a degree in ethnology. However, it was during this time that he began attending with François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, and Eric Rohmer.