Director Jean-Luc Godard, a key figure in the Nouvelle Vague film-making movement of the 1950s and 60s, has died at 91, French media reports
French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted a tribute to the director, writing the country has lost a"national treasure.""It was like an apparition in French cinema," Macron tweeted."Then he became one of its masters. Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of New Wave directors, had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art. We lose a national treasure, a genius outlook.
In the years that followed, his films revolved around complex issues such as fickleness, indignity and caprice. Read MoreAmong his notable later works were his"trilogy of the sublime," which consisted of three films that explored femininity, nature and religion -- 1982's"Passion," the following year's"Prénom Carmen" and"Je vous salue, Marie" in 1985.
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