Jean-Luc Godard was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. His most acclaimed films include
Breathless (1960),
Vivre sa vie (1962),
Contempt (1963),
Band of Outsiders (1964),
Alphaville (1965),
Pierrot le Fou (1965),
Masculin Féminin (1966),
Weekend (1967), and
Goodbye to Language (2014).