French president Emmanuel Macron has led the tributes to Jean-Luc Godard, after the revered filmmaker died at the age of 91.
News of Godard’s death was first reported by the French newspaper Liberation. It has since been confirmed by his lawyer that the director ended his life by assisted death.
Patrick Jeanneret told Afp that due to being “stricken with ‘multiple incapacitating illnesses’”, Godard “had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure”.
Godard was known for directing a run of radical, medium-changing films throughout the 1960s, including his feature debut Breathless and Alphaville.
Along with contemporaries such as Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and François Truffaut, the Paris-born Godard was a central figure in the Nouvelle Vague, an experimental film movement that emerged in France in the late 1950s.
Several of his films are frequently cited among the best movies ever made.
Alongside a black and white photograph of the “iconoclastic” Godard,...
News of Godard’s death was first reported by the French newspaper Liberation. It has since been confirmed by his lawyer that the director ended his life by assisted death.
Patrick Jeanneret told Afp that due to being “stricken with ‘multiple incapacitating illnesses’”, Godard “had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure”.
Godard was known for directing a run of radical, medium-changing films throughout the 1960s, including his feature debut Breathless and Alphaville.
Along with contemporaries such as Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and François Truffaut, the Paris-born Godard was a central figure in the Nouvelle Vague, an experimental film movement that emerged in France in the late 1950s.
Several of his films are frequently cited among the best movies ever made.
Alongside a black and white photograph of the “iconoclastic” Godard,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Maanya Sachdeva and Inga Parkel
- The Independent - Film
The medical report on death of 91-year-old director said he had chosen to end his life
Giant of the French New Wave dies at 91
Jean-Luc Godard, the maverick French-Swiss director who revolutionised post-war cinema in Europe, died by assisted dying, his lawyer has confirmed.
The medical report on the death of the 91-year-old director said he had chosen to end his life. He “had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure” because he was “stricken with ‘multiple incapacitating illnesses’”, Godard’s legal council, Patrick Jeanneret, told Afp.
Giant of the French New Wave dies at 91
Jean-Luc Godard, the maverick French-Swiss director who revolutionised post-war cinema in Europe, died by assisted dying, his lawyer has confirmed.
The medical report on the death of the 91-year-old director said he had chosen to end his life. He “had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure” because he was “stricken with ‘multiple incapacitating illnesses’”, Godard’s legal council, Patrick Jeanneret, told Afp.
- 9/13/2022
- by Angelique Chrisafisin Paris
- The Guardian - Film News
Jean-Luc Godard, the father of modern cinema whose impish, combative provocations threw down a gauntlet with which all those who came in his wake must contend, died Tuesday. He was 91.
The director died at his home by assisted suicide in Rolle, Switzerland, where that practice is legal, Godard’s longtime legal adviser Patrick Jeanneret told The New York Times.
Jeanneret added that the filmmaker had “multiple disabling pathologies” and “decided with a great lucidity, as he had all his life, to say, ‘Now, it’s enough.’ “
In a career that began with 1960’s groundbreaking Breathless,...
The director died at his home by assisted suicide in Rolle, Switzerland, where that practice is legal, Godard’s longtime legal adviser Patrick Jeanneret told The New York Times.
Jeanneret added that the filmmaker had “multiple disabling pathologies” and “decided with a great lucidity, as he had all his life, to say, ‘Now, it’s enough.’ “
In a career that began with 1960’s groundbreaking Breathless,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Tim Grierson
- Rollingstone.com
The radical director of Breathless and Alphaville, and who was a key figure in the French Nouvelle Vague, has died
Peter Bradshaw on Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it
Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director who was a key figure in the Nouvelle Vague, the film-making movement that revolutionised cinema in the late 1950s and 60s, has died aged 91. French news agency Afp reported that he died “peacefully at home” in Switzerland with his wife Anne-Marie Mieville at his side. Liberation, quoting an unnamed family member, reported that Godard’s death was assisted, which is legal in Switzerland. “He was not sick, he was simply exhausted. So he had made the decision to end it. It was his decision and it was important for him that it be known.” Godard’s lawyer Patrick Jeanneret told Afp Godard’s death followed “multiple disabling pathologies”.
Best known for his iconoclastic,...
Peter Bradshaw on Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it
Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director who was a key figure in the Nouvelle Vague, the film-making movement that revolutionised cinema in the late 1950s and 60s, has died aged 91. French news agency Afp reported that he died “peacefully at home” in Switzerland with his wife Anne-Marie Mieville at his side. Liberation, quoting an unnamed family member, reported that Godard’s death was assisted, which is legal in Switzerland. “He was not sick, he was simply exhausted. So he had made the decision to end it. It was his decision and it was important for him that it be known.” Godard’s lawyer Patrick Jeanneret told Afp Godard’s death followed “multiple disabling pathologies”.
Best known for his iconoclastic,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Andrew Pulver and Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
- The Guardian - Film News
Sales outfit to also handle international sales for the Israeli director’s back catalogue.
HanWay Films has acquired international sales rights to Amos Gitai’s Laila In Haifa, ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12).
The UK sales outfit will also now handle international sales for the Israeli director’s back catalogue of work.
Laila In Haifa is set over one fateful night in a club in the port town of Haifa and explores the interweaving stories of five women. The film aims to present a snapshot of contemporary life in one of...
HanWay Films has acquired international sales rights to Amos Gitai’s Laila In Haifa, ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12).
The UK sales outfit will also now handle international sales for the Israeli director’s back catalogue of work.
Laila In Haifa is set over one fateful night in a club in the port town of Haifa and explores the interweaving stories of five women. The film aims to present a snapshot of contemporary life in one of...
- 7/28/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Sales outfit to also handle international sales for the Israeli director’s back catalogue.
HanWay Films has acquired international sales rights to Amos Gitai’s Laila In Haifa, ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12).
The UK sales outfit will also now handle international sales for the Israeli director’s back catalogue of work.
Laila In Haifa is set over one fateful night in a club in the port town of Haifa and explores the interweaving stories of five women. The film aims to present a snapshot of contemporary life in one of...
HanWay Films has acquired international sales rights to Amos Gitai’s Laila In Haifa, ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12).
The UK sales outfit will also now handle international sales for the Israeli director’s back catalogue of work.
Laila In Haifa is set over one fateful night in a club in the port town of Haifa and explores the interweaving stories of five women. The film aims to present a snapshot of contemporary life in one of...
- 7/28/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
HanWay Films will handle international sales on Amos Gitai’s Laila In Haifa, which was announced today in the Venice Film Festival’s Competition line-up.
With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, the pic interweaves the stories of five women. It is set over a night in a club in the Israeli port town of Haifa and is a candid snapshot of one of the last remaining spaces where Israelis and Palestinians come together to engage in face-to-face relationships.
Project is an Israel-France co-production between Agav Films, Cdp and United King Film in association with Patrick Jeanneret, Andrea Di Nardo and Ruth and Stephen Hendel.
Alongside the deal, HanWay will also take on rights to the majority of Gitai’s back catalogue. Including: Esther (1986), Berlin Jerusalem (1989), Golem: Spirit Of Exile (1992), The Petrified Garden (1993), Devarim (1995), The Arena Of Murder (1996), Yom Yom (1998), Kadosh (1999), Kippur (2000), Kedma (2002), Alila (2003), Promised Land (2003), One...
With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, the pic interweaves the stories of five women. It is set over a night in a club in the Israeli port town of Haifa and is a candid snapshot of one of the last remaining spaces where Israelis and Palestinians come together to engage in face-to-face relationships.
Project is an Israel-France co-production between Agav Films, Cdp and United King Film in association with Patrick Jeanneret, Andrea Di Nardo and Ruth and Stephen Hendel.
Alongside the deal, HanWay will also take on rights to the majority of Gitai’s back catalogue. Including: Esther (1986), Berlin Jerusalem (1989), Golem: Spirit Of Exile (1992), The Petrified Garden (1993), Devarim (1995), The Arena Of Murder (1996), Yom Yom (1998), Kadosh (1999), Kippur (2000), Kedma (2002), Alila (2003), Promised Land (2003), One...
- 7/28/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
U.K. based HanWay Films will handle international sales on Israeli auteur Amos Gitai’s new film “Laila In Haifa,” set to bow in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September. HanWay will also represent 25 films from Gitai’s extensive body of award-winning work.
With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, “Laila in Haifa” (A Night in Haifa) follows the interweaving stories of five women over one night in a club in the port town of Haifa.
The film is a co-production between France’s Agav Films and Cdp and Israel’s United King Film in association with Patrick Jeanneret, Andrea Di Nardo and Ruth and Stephen Hendel.
Gitai said, “We are delighted at the announcement that Laila in Haifa is selected this year as part of the Venice Film Festival. This is a special moment after the anxieties, economic worries, viruses, political viruses of the...
With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, “Laila in Haifa” (A Night in Haifa) follows the interweaving stories of five women over one night in a club in the port town of Haifa.
The film is a co-production between France’s Agav Films and Cdp and Israel’s United King Film in association with Patrick Jeanneret, Andrea Di Nardo and Ruth and Stephen Hendel.
Gitai said, “We are delighted at the announcement that Laila in Haifa is selected this year as part of the Venice Film Festival. This is a special moment after the anxieties, economic worries, viruses, political viruses of the...
- 7/28/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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