The iconic film director was a pioneer in the Nouvelle Vague, the film movement that revolutionised cinema in the late 1950s and \u201960s in France.<\/p>\n

Best known for his experimental filming style, as well as radicalism, Godard created a barrel of increasingly politicised films in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Godard died \u201cpeacefully at home\u201d in Switzerland with his wife Anne-Marie Mieville at his side, according to French media.<\/p>\n

French President\u00a0<\/span>Emmanuel Macron\u00a0shared his condolences on <\/span>Twitter<\/a>, writing: \u201cJean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of the New Wave filmmakers, invented art that was resolutely modern, intensely free. We are losing a national treasure, the perspective of a genius.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Paris in 1930, Godard grew up in Nyon in Switzerland, before moving back to Paris after his studies.<\/p>\n

His earliest works were a series of shorts, including the 1957 Charlotte and V\u00e9ronique, or All the Boys Are Named Patrick.<\/p>\n

Ce fut comme une apparition dans le cin\u00e9ma fran\u00e7ais. Puis il en devint un ma\u00eetre. Jean-Luc Godard, le plus iconoclaste des cin\u00e9astes de la Nouvelle Vague, avait invent\u00e9 un art r\u00e9solument moderne, intens\u00e9ment libre. Nous perdons un tr\u00e9sor national, un regard de g\u00e9nie. pic.twitter.com\/bQneeqp8on<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) September 13, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>