“Nothing,” he said. “If the academy wants to do it, let them do it.”
Jean-Luc Godard was born on December 3, 1930 in Paris, the second of four children in a very wealthy Protestant family. His French-born father Paul Jean was a prominent physician and his mother Odile Monot was the daughter of a leading Swiss banker. Mr. Godard believes that his parents instilled in him a love of literature, and initially wanted to become a novelist.
Paul-Jean Godard, who became a Swiss citizen, opened a clinic in Nyon, Switzerland, where Jean-Luc spent his childhood, visiting his family’s estates on both the French and Swiss sides of Lake Geneva, where he lived for 20 years. remained there until the end of the century. Second World War.
After the liberation of France, he returned to Paris as a teenager, attended the Lycee-Buffon secondary school, and entered the Sorbonne in 1949 with the intention of studying ethnology. Instead, he immersed himself in film, the Cinematheque, a non-profit film archive and screening room where he spent much of his time at Française. and at the Film Institute of the Latin Quarter.
It was at the Cinematheque that he met the influential film critic and theorist André Bazin and other young film lovers in his circle, including Mr. Truffaut, Mr. Rohmer and Mr. Rivette. He began writing reviews for the magazine La Gazette du Cinema in 1952 under the pseudonym Hans Lucas, and later joined Mr. Truffaut, Mr. Rohmer and Mr. Rivette as contributors to Cahiers du Cinema, founded by Bazin. rice field.