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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard


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  • Breathless
  • Breathless review by from East Sussex
    Rated - 5.0 stars The day the New Wave began 20 May 2004
    ...Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, shot on a tiny budget, makes a virtue of necessity. The hand-held camera and monochrome film stock were all the crew could afford, an...   Read customer review
  • Une Femme Est Une Femme
  • Une Femme Est Une Femme review by Zamy from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Angela, Emile and Alfred 30 June 2005
    ...Jean-Luc Godard's third feature and first studio production is a bit like a musical for actors who can't sing or dance(Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, and Jean-Claude Brialy)...   Read customer review
  • Vivre Sa Vie
  • Vivre Sa Vie review by from Manchester, England
    Rated - 2.0 stars A story of a Parisian lady of the night 4 September 2010
    ...e or to give it its English title My Life To Live, is a French New Wave film by Jean-Luc Godard. Separated into 12 supposedly insightful vignettes and using Godard’s usual fil...   Read customer review

Jean-Luc Godard - filmography


  • Two In The Wave on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jean-Luc Godard,  Francois Truffaut
    Director: Emmanuel Laurent
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Two in the Wave is the story of a friendship. Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930; Francois Truffaut two years later. Love of movies brings them together. They write in the same magazines, Cahiers du Cinema and Arts. When the younger of the two becomes a filmmaker with "The 400 Blows", which triumphs ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 115 members
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  • Eloge De L'Amour on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Bruno Putzulu,  Cecile Camp,  Francoise Verny
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    From Jean-Luc Godard comes Eloge de l'amour, an intelligent, visually ravishing, witty meditation on life, love and popular culture. Shot in a dazzling combination of luminous black and white celluloid and state of the art colour saturated digital video, Eloge de l'amour concerns an author (Bruno ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 740 members
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  • Detective (1985)
    Starring: Laurent Terzieff,  Aurelle Doazan,  jean-Pierre Leaud
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After several years of making films to please only himself, French director Jean-Luc Godard once more invites the audience to the party with The Detective. Not that there's anything so blase as a linear plot or appealing characters, but at least some of Godard's isolated vignettes are accessible ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 399 members
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  • Room 666 on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Chantal Akerman,  Michelangelo Antonioni,  Maroun Bagdadi
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    During the Cannes Film Festival of 1982 Wenders persuades a number of film directors to lock themselves in a hotel room, switch on the camera and ponder on the question "What is the future of cinema?".
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 49 members
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  • Slow Motion on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Isabelle Huppert,  Jacques Dutronc,  Nathalie Baye
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie), a pessimistic but visually stunning film, marks Jean-Luc Godard's return to cinema after having spent the 70s working in video. The film presents a few days in the lives of three people: Paul Godard (Jacques Dutronc ), a television producer; Denise Rimbaud (Nathalie Baye), ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 679 members
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  • Sympathy for the Devil - Blu-ray (1968)
    Starring: The Rolling Stones
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sympathy For The Devil was made at a time when The Rolling Stones were at the peak of their creative powers and Jean-Lux Godard, who after making some of the great French New Wave cinema had taken a revolutionary political direction with his filmmaking. Possessing Godard's idiosyncratic style it ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 35 members
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  • Sympathy for the Devil on DVD (1968)
    Starring: The Rolling Stones
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sympathy For The Devil was made at a time when The Rolling Stones were at the peak of their creative powers and Jean-Lux Godard, who after making some of the great French New Wave cinema had taken a revolutionary political direction with his filmmaking. Possessing Godard's idiosyncratic style it ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 464 members
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  • Weekend on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Mireille Darc,  Jean Yanne,  jean-Pierre Leaud
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Weekend follows a bickering, scheming bourgeois couple who leave Paris fro the French countryside to claim an inheritance by nefarious means. The trip does not begin well and is the fraught with violence and dangerous encounters.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 3,254 members
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  • Made in USA (1966)
    Starring: Anna Karina,  jean-Pierre Leaud,  Laszlo Szabo
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A woman is investigating the death of her lover Richard, at an undisclosed point in the future. She encounters a series of shady gangsters, and leaves behind a lot of corpses.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 573 members
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  • Bande A Part on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Anna Karina,  Sami Frey,  Claude Brasseur
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jean-Luc Godard continues his fascination with dime store novels and American crime films with BAND OF OUTSIDERS, a free-spirited romp in the same vein as the director's breakthrough smash, BREATHLESS. The story follows two friends, Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey), who are searching ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,115 members
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  • Une Femme Mariee (1964)
    Starring: Bernard Noël,  Macha Meril,  Philippe Leroy
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Long out-of-circulation and unavailable on home video, Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 masterpiece Une femme mariée, fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 en noir et blanc [A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White] has, until now, represented the ostensibly 'missing' key work from ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 223 members
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  • Une Femme Mariee - Blu-ray (1964)
    Starring: Bernard Noël,  Macha Meril,  Philippe Leroy
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Famed auteur Jean-Luc Godard's fascination with the female race continues with A MARRIED WOMAN, an unconventional cinematic portrait of a woman who is at a crossroads in her life. Charlotte (Macha Meril) is a beautiful young wife and stepmother, who also happens to have fallen in love with Robert (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 58 members
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  • Le Mepris on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Brigitte Bardot,  Jack Palance,  Michel Piccoli
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Widely acknowledged as a classic, LE MEPRIS is the story of Paul, a writer, and Camille, a couple in a tempestuous marriage. When Paul accepts a job to review a big screen version of Homer's Odyssey, the arguments over how the script should turn out mirror the arguments in Paul's relationship.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,084 members
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  • Le Petit Soldat (1963)
    Starring: Anna Karina,  Michel Subor,  Henri-Jacques Huet
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    'Le Petit Soldat' is the story of Bruno Forestier, a young, disillusioned man who becomes involved in politics. Despite his physical involvement in the Algerian war, he does not have deep political beliefs.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 599 members
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  • Le Mepris - Blu-ray (1963)
    Starring: Fritz Lang,  Brigitte Bardot,  Jack Palance
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Widely acknowledged as a classic, LE MEPRIS is the story of Paul, a writer, and Camille, a couple in a tempestuous marriage. When Paul accepts a job to review a big screen version of Homer's Odyssey, the arguments over how the script should turn out mirror the arguments in Paul's relationship.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 170 members
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  • Vivre Sa Vie on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Anna Karina,  Sady Rebbot
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nana S is bored of her life as a shopkeeper. After leaving her husband, she decides to embark upon a career as an actress but instead drifts into the world of prostitution.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,418 member
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  • Breathless (1960)
    Starring: Jean Seberg,  Jean-Paul Belmondo,  Jean-Pierre Melville
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 8,563 members
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  • Breathless - Blu-ray (1959)
    Starring: Jean Seberg,  Jean-Paul Belmondo,  Jean-Pierre Melville
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 320 members
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  • Histoire (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Jean-Luc Godard
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Consisting of eight episodes made during the course of a ten year period, HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA is acclaimed French Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's astute series that examines many of cinemas most important facets, including its birth, the emergence of Italian neo-realism through to the importance of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 97 members
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Collection Vol.1 (4 discs)
    Starring: Laszlo Szabo,  Jeanne Moreau,  Jean-Paul Belmondo
    Director: Jean-Luc Godard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One of the founders of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard has been responsible for creating some of the most innovative and daring films during the past four decades. This set features four of his best known films - ALPHAVILLE, PASSION, A BOUT DE SOUFFLE and MADE IN THE USA.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,810 member
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Jean-Luc Godard facts

5 most recent films

Film Socialisme - 2.5 stars
Two In The Wave - 3.0 stars
Notre Musique - 2.5 stars
Eloge De L'Amour - 2.5 stars
Helas Pour Moi - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Breathless - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Vivre Sa Vie - 3.5 stars
Bande A Part - 3.5 stars
Une Femme Est Une Femme - 3.5 stars
Masculin, Feminin - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

RoGoPaG - Let's Wash Our Brains - 3 stars
Sympathy for the Devil - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Six in Paris - 2.5 stars
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero - 3.0 stars
Film Socialisme - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Anna Karina - 23 times - show films
Jean-Paul Belmondo - 21 times - show films
Samuel Fuller - 21 times - show films
Marianne Faithful - 14 times - show films
jean-Pierre Leaud - 9 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Wim Wenders - 2 times - show films
Jean-Paul Battaggia - 1 times - show films
Charles Sturridge - 1 times - show films
Pier Paol - 1 times - show films
Raoul Coutard - 1 times - show films