Jean-Luc Godard

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Biography

Jean-Luc Godard (December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement and was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.

Known For

The 400 Blows

(voix) (non crédité)

Breathless

The Snitch

Contempt

Lang's Assistant Director

Cléo from 5 to 7

The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent Film

Vivre Sa Vie

The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited)

Band of Outsiders

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Faces Places

Self

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

Narrator (voice)

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Identidade MOVIE	Jean-Luc Godard (Imagens de Arquivo)
2026	One Hero, The People MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2025	Noises From The Agora MOVIE	Self
2025	The Death of Jean-Luc Godard MOVIE	Self
2025	The Story of "Scénario" MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2025	From Darkness to Light MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	Death MOVIE	Self (voice)
2024	Scénarios MOVIE	Self
2024	Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario" MOVIE	Self
2024	Only Godard MOVIE	Self
2023	Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars MOVIE	Self/Narrator
2023	The Staircase Wall MOVIE	Self (voice, archive footage)
2023	Say God Bye MOVIE	Self (JLG)
2023	Godard Cinema MOVIE	Self
2023	Godard by Godard MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2023	Godard Is Here MOVIE	Self
2023	Lila MOVIE	Self
2023	Full Metal Kuleshov Effect MOVIE	Self
2022	G(ode)ard MOVIE	JLG
2022	See You Friday, Robinson MOVIE	Self
2022	Alianças Profanas MOVIE	Self
2021	86 printemps, Jean-Luc Godard MOVIE	Self
2021	Godard Etkisi MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	Morceaux de Cannes MOVIE	Self
2021	Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Printtemps MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Anna and the Jellyfish MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Anna Karina, Remember MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020	Iter MOVIE	Self
2019	Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Film catastrophe MOVIE	Self
2018	The Image Book MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2018	Mireille Darc, la femme libre MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville on Google StreetView MOVIE	Self
2018	Official Spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF MOVIE	Self
2017	Belmondo, le magnifique MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum MOVIE	Self(archive footage)
2017	Conversation entre Jean-Luc Godard et Jacques Rivette MOVIE	Self
2017	Faces Places MOVIE	Self
2016	Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2015	A Weekend at the Beach MOVIE	Self
2015	A German Youth MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2015	Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive MOVIE	Self
2014	Goodbye to Language MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2014	Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2013	Bardot, The Misunderstanding MOVIE	Self
2013	The Three Disasters MOVIE	Narrator
2013	Carottage MOVIE	self
2012	Freddy Buache, le cinéma MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	Quod Erat Demonstrandum MOVIE	Self
2012	Close Up MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2011	Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2011	La rouge et la noire MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
2011	Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais MOVIE	Self
2010	Conversation with JLG MOVIE	Self
2010	Brunes et Blondes MOVIE	Self
2010	Memória Cubana MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2010	Two in the Wave MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2010	Accomplice MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2010	Ensemble et séparés : sept rendez-vous avec Jean-Luc Godard MOVIE	Self
2010	Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings MOVIE	Self
2010	Tribute to Eric Rohmer MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
2009	Deuses de Mentira MOVIE	(Archive Sound)
2009	Once Upon a Time… Contempt MOVIE	Self
2009	On the Trail of the New Wave MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2009	Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard MOVIE	Self
2009	JLG\PG MOVIE	Self
2008	Back to Room 666 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2006	Filmmakers in Action MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2006	Vrai faux passeport MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
2006	Amateur Report (Exhibition Model) MOVIE	Self (voice) (uncredited)
2006	Four Short Films MOVIE	Self - Narrator
2006	Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma MOVIE	Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
2006	Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
2006	Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
2006	Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
2006	Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
2006	Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty MOVIE	Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
2006	Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema MOVIE	Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
2006	Ecce Homo MOVIE	(voice)
2005	Mag Bodard, un destin MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2005	I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2005	Brève rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma comme métaphore MOVIE	Self
2004	Notre Musique MOVIE	Self
2004	The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin MOVIE	Self
2003	Marguerite as She Was MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2002	Heart of the Festival MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2001	Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard MOVIE	Self
2001	Jean Cocteau, cinéaste MOVIE	Self
2000	After the Reconciliation MOVIE	Robert
2000	The Old Place MOVIE	Self / Narrator (voice)
2000	Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas MOVIE	Self
2000	Mai en décembre: Godard en Abitibi MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1999	Godard on TV: 1960-2000 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1998	Adieu au TNS MOVIE	Self
1997	We're All Still Here MOVIE	The Actor
1997	Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths MOVIE	Self
1996	For Ever Mozart MOVIE	Man pretending to play soccer (uncredited)
1996	What's Wrong With The World MOVIE	(voice)
1995	2 x 50 Years of French Cinema MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1995	JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1995	Paradjanov, le dernier collage MOVIE	Self
1994	Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud MOVIE	Self
1994	Moving Pictures MOVIE	Self
1993	The Children Play Russian MOVIE	The idiot: Prince Mishkin
1993	Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède MOVIE	Self (voice) (archive footage)
1993	Hail, Sarajevo MOVIE	Narrator
1992	Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave MOVIE	Self
1989	Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories MOVIE	Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
1989	Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story MOVIE	Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
1989	Histoire(s) du cinéma TV	Self
1989	The Darty Report MOVIE	Nathanael, the 2000 year-old robot
1988	King Lear MOVIE	Professor Pluggy
1988	Entretien entre Serge Daney et Jean-Luc Godard MOVIE	Self
1987	Keep Your Right Up MOVIE	Idiot / Prince
1987	Duras/Godard MOVIE	Self
1986	Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1986	Routine Pleasures MOVIE	Self (Archive photos)
1986	Meetin' WA MOVIE	Self
1986	September September MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1985	Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française MOVIE	Self
1985	Soft and Hard MOVIE	Self
1985	Godard / Sollers : L’entretien MOVIE	Self
1984	Série noire TV	Self (uncredited)
1983	First Name: Carmen MOVIE	Uncle Jeannot (uncredited)
1983	A Letter to Freddy Buache MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1983	Godard: History: Passion MOVIE	Self
1983	Notes on Hail Mary MOVIE	Self
1982	Room 666 MOVIE	Self
1982	Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario MOVIE	Self
1982	To Alter the Image MOVIE	The Idiot (uncredited)
1982	Scénario du film Passion MOVIE	Narrator / Self
1981	Reporters MOVIE	Self
1981	Cinématon XI MOVIE	N°106
1981	Cinématon n°106 : Jean-Luc Godard MOVIE	Self
1981	Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie)) MOVIE	Self
1980	Godard 1980 MOVIE	Self
1979	ORG MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1979	France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children MOVIE	Robert Linard
1979	France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children TV	Robert Linard (uncredited)
1978	Cinématon MOVIE	N°106
1978	Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 11 MOVIE	Self
1978	Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 10 MOVIE	Self
1978	Little Godard MOVIE	Guest
1978	How's It Going? MOVIE	Union Member (voice)
1978	Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 1 MOVIE	Self
1976	Here and Elsewhere MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1976	Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication TV	Self
1976	Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication MOVIE	Self
1975	Né MOVIE	Self
1975	Number Two MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1975	Apostrophes TV	Self
1974	Spécial cinéma TV	Self
1974	Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still MOVIE	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1971	1 P.M. MOVIE	Self
1971	Vladimir and Rosa MOVIE	Vladimir Lenin (uncredited)
1970	Wind from the East MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1970	Godard in America MOVIE	Self
1969	Le Gai Savoir MOVIE	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1969	Willing MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1969	Voices MOVIE	Self
1969	Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard MOVIE	Self
1968	One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks MOVIE	Self
1968	Françoise et Udo... MOVIE	Self
1968	Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making MOVIE	Self
1967	Far from Vietnam MOVIE	Self (segment "Camera Eye")
1967	Festivals 66 Cinéma 67 MOVIE	Self
1967	2 or 3 Things I Know About Her MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1967	The Dinosaur and the Baby MOVIE	Self
1967	Made in U.S.A MOVIE	Richard Politzer (voice) (uncredited)
1967	Civilisation: L'homme et les images MOVIE	Self
1966	Carl Th. Dreyer MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1966	Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966 MOVIE	Self
1966	The Defector MOVIE	Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited)
1966	Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson MOVIE	Self
1965	Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965 MOVIE	Self
1965	Dim Dam Dom TV	Self
1965	Cinema According to Jean-Luc MOVIE	Self
1964	The Married Woman MOVIE	The Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1964	Paparazzi MOVIE	Self
1964	The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers MOVIE	Man in Fez / Narrator (segment "Le Grand escroc") (uncredited)
1964	Band of Outsiders MOVIE	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1964	La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même MOVIE	Self
1964	Bardot et Godard MOVIE	Self
1963	Contempt MOVIE	Lang's Assistant Director
1963	Scheherazade MOVIE	Handwalker
1963	The Lovely Month of May MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1963	The Little Soldier MOVIE	Man at Railway Station (uncredited)
1962	Vivre Sa Vie MOVIE	The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited)
1962	Sun in Your Eyes MOVIE	Self
1962	Sign of the Lion MOVIE	Le Mélomane (uncredited)
1962	Fiancés on the Bridge MOVIE	Man with the Black Glasses
1962	Cléo from 5 to 7 MOVIE	The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent Film
1962	Petit Jour MOVIE	Self
1961	Paris Belongs to Us MOVIE	Hans Lucas
1961	A Story of Water MOVIE	The Young Man (voice)
1960	Breathless MOVIE	The Snitch
1959	The 400 Blows MOVIE	(voix) (non crédité)
1958	Charlotte and Her Boyfriend MOVIE	Jules (voice) (uncredited)
1958	Operation Concrete MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1956	Fool’s Mate MOVIE	Party guest (uncredited)
1956	Cinépanorama TV	Self
1956	The Kreutzer Sonata MOVIE	Ami Journaliste
1955	A Flirtatious Woman MOVIE	The Man Who Looks at the Balcony (uncredited)
1951	Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak MOVIE	Walter
1950	The Glass Castle MOVIE	Un voyageur qui sort de la Gare de l'Est (uncredited)
1950	Le quadrille MOVIE	Self
1948	Bambi TV	Self
	MORTEM IMAGINIS. MOVIE	Godard
	The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One' MOVIE	Self

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